lapidable

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adjective

Nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).

OriginLatin lapis →
First used 17th–18th centuriesScrabble 14
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Meanings

adjectivelapidable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteNubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).First known use 17th–18th centuries

    I bought a wench yisterday, cost me 3 taies, for w’ch she must serve 5 yeares […] She is but 12 yeares ould, over small yet for trade, but yow wold littell thynke that I have another forthcominge that is mor lapedable, yet it is true, & I think a gentelwoman of your accoyntance.

    1614, Richard Cocks, letter to Richard Williams, quoted in 1991, Anthony Farrington, The English Factory in Japan 1613-1623, London: The British Library, page 140
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    [T]he exspected long looked for houre […] was now come; for that she was lapidable and ripe for man, and that all the time thenceforth she should continue a forst chastity, would be little or no cost, except what was expended in oatmeal or loam: Ventricia cheared up her self, well contented with so easie and beneficial a cure.

    1660, anonymous author, The Practical Part of Love: Extracted out of the Extravagant and Lascivious Life of a Fair but Subtle Female, London

    Yet do thou cheriſh thy Partner, whilſt her innocent Eyes are gazing on the Green Garment, that covereth the Surface of her Illapidable Virginity, ruminating upon the Departure of her neareſt and deareſt Friend. […] In that Day thee wilt ſee with the Eye of Fleſh; but if thee purſues it farther, to know whether ſhe be Lapidable, or not, thee art certainly a Tyrant: For the Hammer of thy Loins, will at length beat down the Fortreſs of her Porto Bello; and the Pillars of her Tabernace will be ſpread abroad, until thee haſt plundered the City, and taken the Precious Stones away[.]

    a. 1744, Nehemiah Careful [pseudonym], “The Following Letter Was Sent to a Quaker in the City of Dublin, upon His Marriage”, in James Carson, compiler, Jemmy Carson’s Collections: Being a Revival of His Own Labours and Lucubrations, for Thirty Years Past; with Pieces upon Different Subjects, by Several Hands, Dublin: […] James Carson, […], published 1744, →OCLC, pages 82–83

Origin

  1. Latinlapis“stone”
  2. Englishlapidable

From Latin lapis (“stone”). The sense "nubile" was an intellectual pun on the use of English stone to mean "testicle", potentially also influenced by lap (“female pudenda”).

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