Definition of Lapidifying. Meaning of Lapidifying. Synonyms of Lapidifying

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Definition of Lapidifying

Lapidifying
Lapidify La*pid"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lapidified; p. pr. & vb. n. Lapidifying.] [Cf. f. lapidifier. See Lapidific, and -fy.] To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

Meaning of Lapidifying from wikipedia

- might be converted into stone, as being permeable to what he termed the 'lapidifying juice. Pietro Andrea Mattioli was a renowned botanist and physician,...
- contemporary Athanasius Kircher, for example, attributed fossils to a "lapidifying virtue diffused through the whole body of the geocosm", considered an...