单词 | lapidification |
释义 | lapidification|ləˌpɪdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən| [f. lapidify: see -fication.] The action or process of converting or being converted into stone.
1626Bacon Sylva §82 Lapidification of Substances more soft, is likewise another degree of Condensation. 1727–52Chambers Cycl., Lapidification, in chemistry, an operation whereby any substance is converted into a sort of stone. 1774Projects in Ann. Reg. 110/1 It..turned out a kind of instantaneous lapidification. 1851Richardson Geol. (1855) 31 Cesalpini..ascribing them [fossils]..to ‘the retiring of the sea and the lapidification of the soil’. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. I. ii. xviii. 426 We shall feel no surprise at the lapidification of the newly deposited sediment in this Delta. |

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