lapidification
nounEtymology Compare French lapidification.
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The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction, turning to stone
- For anybody, though, not part of it all (which was obviously Ishmail's plight), that world was nothing but a smooth, cyclical continuum, without a fold in it, without any form of articulation, as compact as stucco or staff, as putty or portland; an imbrication of nights without adjoining days, a total lapidification, a flat, hard, constant, monotonous uniformity in which all things, big or small, smooth or lumpish, living or not, form a solitary, global unit.1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void: