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Webster 1913 Edition


Lapidescence

Lapˊi-des′cence

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Noun.
1.
The state or quality of being lapidescent.
2.
A hardening into a stone substance.
3.
A stony concretion.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lapidescence

LAPIDES'CENCE

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Noun.
[L. lapidesco, from lapis, a stone.]
1.
The process of becoming stone; a hardening into a stony substance.
2.
A stony concretion.

Definition 2024


lapidescence

lapidescence

English

Noun

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.
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