the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to stone; inscribed on stone.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Same as lapidary. Croker.
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adj. inscribed on stone
Word Usage
"Something as big and obvious and wonderful as a giant striding the downs with dinosaurs and tribes of stone-age elves living in the forests atop his head is worth any number of polished and lapidarian phrases."