lapidification

Compare French lapidification.

lapidification (countable and uncountable, plural lapidifications)

1. The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction, turning to stone
   • 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:

     For anybody, though, not part of it all (which was obviously Ishmail's plight), that world was nothing but a smooth, cyclical continuum, without a fold in it, without any form of articulation, as compact as stucco or staff, as putty or portland; an imbrication of nights without adjoining days, a total lapidification, a flat, hard, constant, monotonous uniformity in which all things, big or small, smooth or lumpish, living or not, form a solitary, global unit.

• “lapidification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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lapidification f (plural lapidifications)

1. lapidification

• “lapidification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.