lapidify, petrify
(verb) change into stone; “the wood petrified with time”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lapidify (third-person singular simple present lapidifies, present participle lapidifying, simple past and past participle lapidified)
(intransitive) To become stone or stony.
(transitive) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
(transitive) To cause to become permanent; to solidify.
Source: Wiktionary
La*pid"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lapidified; p. pr. & vb. n. Lapidifying.] Etym: [Cf. f. lapidifier. See Lapidific, and -fy.]
Definition: To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
La*pid"i*fy, v. i.
Definition: To become stone or stony
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 June 2025
(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
