lapidify

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Los Angeles, Calif. Futile Lapidist Sirs: To the best of my recollection, abetted by contemporary research, it was Sisyphus who was the Greeks' most futile lapidist, not Tantalus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The doublet was rent asunder by imperial decree, as when a lapidist melts the mastic that holds in deception adamant and glass, while real diamond stands all fire short of the hydro-oxygen flame.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot