interlapidate

English edit

Etymology edit

From English inter- (“between”) + Latin lapis (“stone”, stem: lapid-) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs), after interfoliate.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɚˈlapɪdeɪt/

Verb edit

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

(nonce word, transitive) To fit in between each other like stones in a building.
- 1814 November 2nd, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Justice Fletcher, in Essays on His Own Times, published 1850, page 658:
  Combinations of the mechanics and lower craftsmen…interlapidated and cemented as they all are, each in the club of his own trade.

Translations edit

fit in between each other like stones in a building

Further reading edit

James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Interla·pidate, v.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 400, column 2.