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lapidification en · NOUN

Etymology

Compare French lapidification.

Meanings

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

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