v. rare. [f. STONE sb. or STONY a. + -FY.] trans. To make stony, or turn into stone; to petrify. Also absol.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 363. Wilkes of stone or Shell-fish stonified.
1633. J. Fisher, Fuimus Troes, II. v. D 1 b. Whose most vgly shapes … [they] May kill, and stonifie without all weapons.
1763. Ann. Reg., Char., 28/2. Flints … are…, if the expression may be allowed, more stonified than other stones.
1887. W. Clark Russell, Frozen Pirate, I. xi. 160. The temperature below had not the severity to stonify me to the granite of the men at the table.
Hence Stonified ppl. a. Also Stonifiable a., capable of being stonified.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 247. Every stonyfiable juyce hath its own determined … hardness.
1882. R. C. Maclagan, Scott. Myths, 144. This stonified head.
1890. W. Clark Russell, Ocean Trag., III. xxxiii. 218. The stonified ship [a ship encrusted with shells, etc.] shook to the mighty discharge.
