lapidify

verb

Over time, the ancient statue slowly lapidified.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To become stone or stony.

意味（2）

(transitive) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.

意味（3）

(transitive) To 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.