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English
Etymology
From inter- + Latin lapid- (“stone”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), after interfoliate.
Pronunciation
Verb
interlapidate (third-person singular simple present interlapidates, present participle interlapidating, simple past and past participle interlapidated)
- (nonce word, transitive) To fit in between each other like stones in a building.
1814 November 2nd, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Justice Fletcher, in Essays on His Own Times, published 1850, page 658:Combinations of the mechanics and lower craftsmen…interlapidated and cemented as they all are, each in the club of his own trade.
Translations
fit in between each other like stones in a building
Further reading
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Interla·pidate, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 400, column 2: “Interla·pidate, v. nonce-wd. [f. L. inter- between + L. lapid-em stone: cf. interfoliate.] trans. To fit in between each other like stones in a building.”