Adjective: lapideous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lapideous |
| Superlative | most lapideous |
Sample Sentences
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Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon […] a Chilifactory menstruum or digestive preparation drawn from species or individuals, whose stomacks peculiarly dissolve lapideous bodies. [1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:]
Adjectives inflected like lapideous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin lapideus, from lapis (“stone”). See: Latin Adjectives '
lapideus'.