lapidify
verbEtymology From Latin lapid- (“stone”) + -ify.
1
To become stone or stony.
2
To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
3
To cause to become permanent; to solidify.
- The rule of the Abang, in an age when the techniques existed to lapidify any rule to permanency, was, because of the very rise of a party, doomed.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 303:
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