lapidary
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Is lapidary a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete)Examples: "Yet as naked as at the firſt bluſh it [the work] ſeemeth, if it ſhall ſtande wyth your Honour his pleaſure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie) at vacant houres to inſearche it, you ſhall finde therein ſtones of ſuch eſtimatiõ, as are woorthy to be coucht in riche and precious collets."Synonyms: gemmologist, gemologist, lapidistcountableobsoleteuncountable
2. (obsolete)countableobsoleteuncountable
3. (obsolete)countableobsoleteuncountable
adj (English)
1. (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to stones in general.Examples: "Yet such is the temper of this world, that, if a grave philosopher, by shaking his fist, and other acts of bravado, should happen to provoke a company of mischievous boys to reply with a shower of stones, people in general suffer their resentment to settle upon the philosopher for his wanton provocation, rather than on the boys for that lapidary style of retort in which their wrath has been trained to express itself."archaicnot-comparablerare
Definition source: Wiktionary