lapidify

present singular third person lapidifies · participle present lapidifying · participle past lapidified · past lapidified

1. intransitiveTo become stone or stony.
2. transitiveTo convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
3. transitiveTo cause to become permanent; to solidify.

   The rule of the Abang, in an age when the techniques existed to lapidify any rule to permanency, was, because of the very rise of a party, doomed.

   1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 303