lapideous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lapideus, from lapis (“stone”).
Adjective
[edit]lapideous (comparative more lapideous, superlative most lapideous)
- (obsolete) Of the nature of stone; stony.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon […] a Chilifactory menstruum or digestive preparation drawn from species or individuals, whose stomacks peculiarly dissolve lapideous bodies.