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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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9 words match “LAPIDATE”

LAPIDATE v.
To stone. [Obs.]
DILAPIDATE v. 3 definitions
ss and good condition of; -- said of a building. If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.
DILAPIDATED a.
Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect. A deserted and dilapidated buildings. Cooper.
INLAPIDATE v.
To convert into a stony substance; to petrity. [R.] Bacon.
DILAPIDATION n.
The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered. Tell the people that are relived by the dilapidation of their public estate. Burke.
ROOKERY n.
A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
RUIN n. 2 definitions
r decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like. The Veian and the Gabian towers shall fall, And one promiscuous ruin cover all; Nor, after length of years, a stone betray The place where once the very ruins lay. Addison…
RUINOUS a.
Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
TUMBLE-DOWN a.
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.]