[ad. L. lapicīda, contraction for lapidicīda f. lapid-, lapis stone: see -CIDE 1.] One who cuts stones, or inscriptions on stone.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Lapicide, a digger, or hewer of stones; a Stone-cutter or Free-Mason.
1736. in Bailey (fol.).
1831. M. Russell, Egypt, iv. (1853), 107. The Master Mohammed Ahmed, lapicide, has opened them.
1889. D. G. Hogarth, Devia Cypria, 9. The cognomina of the three brothers being identical, the lapicide has not repeated them.
Hence † Lapicidarial a., of or pertaining to the work of a lapicide; † Lapicidary, one who is engaged in stone-cutting; a lapidary.
1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 23 b. The workemanship … seemed to excell the cunning of any humaine Lapicidarie. Ibid., 90. The hollowed and bending leaves with all the other lapicidariall lineaments, were performed with such an emulation of nature as was woonderfull.
