lapidification

Noun

lapidification (countable and uncountable, plural lapidifications)

1. The act or process of lapidifying; fossilization; petrifaction, turning to stone
   • For anybody, though, not part of it all (which was obviously Ishmail's plight), that world was nothing but a smooth, cyclical continuum, without a fold in it, without any form of articulation, as compact as stucco or staff, as putty or portland; an imbrication of nights without adjoining days, a...1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void