Obs. rare. [f. next + -IST.] = LAPIDARY B 1 b.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 340. The skilful lapidarists of Germany affirm that this beast hath a stone in his eyes.
1620. Shelton, Quix., IV. vi. II. 70. A most precious Diamond, of whose Goodness and Quality all the Lapidarists that had view’d the same, would rest satisfied.
