a. Now rare. Also 7 -ious. [f. L. lapide-us, f. lapid-, lapis stone.]
1. Of the nature of stone, stony.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. v. 91. The … lapidificall juyce of the sea … entring the parts of that plant … converts it into a lapideous substance.
1694. Phil. Trans., XVIII. 112. This Lapidious Concretion took up the whole Cavity of the Bladder.
1758. Borlase, Nat. Hist. Cornwall, xv. § 7. 164. From malleable and metallic they become lapideous.
1865. A. S. Herschel, in Intell. Observ., No. 39. 220. The lapideous morsels.
† 2. Consisting of or inscribed on stone. Obs.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. Pref. 7. Camden, by throwing his antiquarian eye on the lapideous records, which had been dug from its foundations, ascertained that … fact.
