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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LAPIDESCENT

a.Growing or turning to stone; that has the quality of petrifying bodies.

LAPIDESCENT

n.Any substance which has the quality of petrifying a body, or converting it to stone.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LAPIDESCENT

Lap `i *des "cent, a. Etym: [L. lapidescens, p. pr. of lapidescere to become stone, fr. lapis, -idis, stone: cf. F. lapidescent. ]

Defn: Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

LAPIDESCENT

LAPIDESCENT Lap "i *des "cent, n.

Defn: Any substance which has the quality of petrifying other bodies, or of converting or being converted into stone.