lapidescence

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lapidescence (countable and uncountable, plural lapidescences)

  1. The state or quality of being lapidescent.
  2. The process of hardening into a stone substance.
    • 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter:
      The process of lapidescence had begun: the world was turning him into a monument to himself.
  3. A stony concretion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lapidescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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