Meaning of inlapidate | Babel Free

Definitions

To convert into a stony substance; to petrify.

archaic, transitive

Examples

“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.”

“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^([sic]) its inhabitants, one day call their partners and confederates by this name, and the next betray them into the hands of juſtice.”

“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.”

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