† lapiˈdescence Obs.
[f. lapidescent a.: see -ence.]
Lapidescent condition; petrifaction. So † lapiˈdescency, in quot. quasi-concr., a result of petrifaction.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxiii. 167 Those fragments and pieces of Lapis Ceratites, commonly termed Cornu fossile..are but the Lapidescencies and petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. 1650 Charleton Paradoxes Prol. 23 A..laborious exploration of the Causes of Coagulation, conductive to Lapidescence or Petrifaction. 1799 Kirwan Geol. Ess. 125 Some proportion of water is always necessary to promote this lapidescence. |