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inlapidate (third-person singular simple present inlapidates, present participle inlapidating, simple past and past participle inlapidated)

1. (archaic, transitive) To convert into a stony substance; to petrify.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century. [Experiments in Consort, touching Induration of Bodies.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 85, page 27:

     It is already found, that there are ſome Naturall Spring-waters, that will Inlapidate Wood; So that you ſhall ſee one peece of Wood, whereof the Part aboue the Water ſhall continue Wood; And the Part vnder the Water ſhall be turned into a kinde of Grauelly Stone.

   • 1776, Lubbock Thornley, “Essay on Friendship. Number IV”, in The Lady's Magazine; Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, volume 7, London: G. Robinson, page 359, column 2:

     Nay, even the banditti of the highway, whoſe hearts are inlapidated by cruelty, and whoſe delight is in rapine, plunder, and bloodſhed, who ſhow their hatred of the world by defying its laws, and murderings its inhabitants, one day call their partners and confederates by this name, and the next betray them into the hands of juſtice.

   • 1778, Hamilton Walker, Mary Lady, Munster Village, volume II, London: Robson and Co., page 166:

     Were the devil to become a mortal, he would incline to be the comite to the galley-ſlaves at Marſeilles, whoſe hearts are inlapidated by cruelty.