lapidify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb change into stone
    petrify.
    • the wood petrified with time

WordNet

La*pid"i*fy transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. f. lapidifier. See Lapidific, and -fy.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Lapidified ; present participle & verbal noun Lapidifying
Definitions
  1. To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
La*pid"i*fy intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To become stone or stony

Webster 1913