interlapidate

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/ˌɪntɚˈlapɪdeɪt/

verb

To fit in between each other like stones in a building.

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Meanings

verbinterlapidate (third-person singular simple present interlapidates, present participle interlapidating, simple past and past participle interlapidated)

present singular third person interlapidates · participle present interlapidating · participle past interlapidated · past interlapidated

  1. nonce wordtransitiveTo fit in between each other like stones in a building.

    Combinations of the mechanics and lower craftsmen…interlapidated and cemented as they all are, each in the club of his own trade.

    1814 November 2nd, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Justice Fletcher, in Essays on His Own Times, published 1850, page 658

Origin

From inter- + Latin lapid- (“stone”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), after interfoliate.

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APA

interlapidate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interlapidate

MLA

“interlapidate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interlapidate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interlapidate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interlapidate.

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