lapidify

From Latin lapis (“stone”) +‎ -ify.

lapidify (third-person singular simple present lapidifies, present participle lapidifying, simple past and past participle lapidified)

1. (intransitive) To become stone or stony.
2. (transitive) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
3. (transitive) To cause to become permanent; to solidify.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 303:

     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.

• lapidification

• “lapidify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.