lapidify
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Yet when the whole is lapidified, it may not form one homogeneous mass of stone or metal.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Yet Mattioli had come to the conclusion, from his own observations, that porous bodies, such as bones and shells, might be converted into stone, as being permeable to what he termed the "lapidifying juice."
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
