a. ? Obs. [f. L. lapid-, lapis stone + -(I)FIC. Cf. F. lapidifique.] Adapted to or concerned with the making of stones.
1693. Sir T. P. Blount, Nat. Hist., 35. In the Kidneys … that part which … is the most Lapidifick of the whole Body.
1746. Simon, in Phil. Trans., XLIV. 317. The finer the lapidific Particles are, the more beautiful and natural the Petrifaction will appear.
1786. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), I. 516. Have we any better proof of such an effort of nature, than of her shooting a lapidific juice into the form of a shell.
1802. Playfair, Illustr. Hutton. Theory, 373. Carrying some cementing substance along with it, or some lapidific juice, as it is called.
So † Lapidifical a. = LAPIDIFIC.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. 50. Crystall … is … concreted by … lapidificall principles of its owne.
1675. E. W[ilson], Spadacrene Dunelm., 46. The Seeds of Petrifaction, or lapidifical Principle, which converts all materials it meets withall into a stony concrete.
