The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lapidify
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.
Lapidify
Lapidify \La*pid"i*fy\, v. i. To become stone or stony.
Wiktionary
lapidify
vb. 1 To become stone or stony. 2 To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
WordNet
lapidify
v. change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn: petrify]
[also: lapidified]
Usage examples of "lapidify".
Perhaps in a few months a slow seepage, rich in minerals, would return to these passages and gradually glue their bodies to the rocks where they sat, to seal their crypt and lapidify their bones.