lapidist

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin lapis, lapidis (“a stone”).

Noun edit

lapidist (plural lapidists)

(obsolete, rare) A lapidary (“person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones; expert in gems and precious stones”).
- 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
  the factitious Stones of Chymists in invitation being easily detected by any ordinary Lapidist

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lapidist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)