| Definitions | lapidary
noun (lapidaries)
- A person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.
adjective
- Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
- Suitable for incriptions; efficient, stately, concise.
- 2000: The sole truth was that supplied by mathematics or by such propositions as "What's done cannot be undone," which was irrefutably correct. " Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God (Harper 2004, p. 71)
Etymology: From Latin lapidarius "of stones" (later used as a noun "stone-cutter"), from lapis "stone".
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