Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the working of stone or gems; lapidary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
lapidary. Croker .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Lapidary . - noun A
lapidary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective inscribed on stone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Something as big and obvious and wonderful as a giant striding the downs with dinosaurs and tribes of stone-age elves living in the forests atop his head is worth any number of polished and lapidarian phrases.
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"Somehing about these questions - which are less Borat than spiritually evolved visitor from another planet - get at the larger ones about the culture with a lapidarian precision that's absolutely ruthless in its sincerity and innocence."
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It's an esoteric art requiring encyclopedic grave digging, lapidarian editing, and precise pitch and tempo shifting skills.
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The lapidarian patience she has expended in trimming, breathing upon, and polishing these bits of opaque cellophane betrays a concern that has less to do with art than with private worship and the embellishment of private fetishes with secret and arbitrary meanings.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
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But -- what if he had no anthropological, lapidarian, or meteorological affiliations -- but did belong to a secret society --
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Miss Lowell can find authentic inspiration equally in the lapidarian stanzas of Henri de Regnier and in the color effects produced by the flicking of the tail of the great northern pike.
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Amy Lowell 1899
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Groceteria, insular, monomaniacal, abysmally and shaddock took out five spellers in round eight; simultaneity, lapidarian, braillist and pertussis ended the contest for another four in round nine.
azcentral.com | news Connie Cone Sexton 2010
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(No, don't be nasty … it's a lapidarian plural noun.)
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Springy of the justly curl about that he lapidarian it laudably and that you feoff to get tillable on sin and showily a rube in the monarch is unsubtle.
Rational Review 2009
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(No, don't be nasty … it's a lapidarian plural noun.)
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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