lapidary
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlæpɪdəɹi/
lapidary (plural lapidaries)
- A person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.
- 2013, Peter G. Read,Gemmology, Elsevier, p.289
- In the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones.
- 2013, Peter G. Read,Gemmology, Elsevier, p.289
- An expert in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
- (archaic) A treatise on precious stones.
lapidary (not comparable)
- Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
- Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise; embodying the refinement and precision characteristic of stone-cutting.
- 2000, Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Knopf/HarperCollins, p. 71
- The sole truth was that supplied by mathematics or by such lapidary propositions as “What's done cannot be undone,” which was irrefutably correct.
- 2000, Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Knopf/HarperCollins, p. 71
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