A lapidarian record. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a lapidary style; lapidary verse. From Dictionary.com.
It's an esoteric art requiring encyclopedic grave digging, lapidarian editing, and precise pitch and tempo shifting skills. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Gender Equality In New Girl Talk Album] Reference
But -- what if he had no anthropological, lapidarian, or meteorological affiliations -- but did belong to a secret society. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Something as big and obvious and wonderful as a giant striding the downs with dinosaurs and tribes of stone-age elves living in the forests atop his head is worth any number of polished and lapidarian phrases. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Swanwick on the sense of wonder in writing] Reference
"Somehing about these questions - which are less Borat than spiritually evolved visitor from another planet - get at the larger ones about the culture with a lapidarian precision that's absolutely ruthless in its sincerity and innocence.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: God Grew Tired of Us.] Reference
(No, don't be nasty … it's a lapidarian plural noun.). From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Miss Lowell can find authentic inspiration equally in the lapidarian stanzas of Henri de Regnier and in the color effects produced by the flicking of the tail of the great northern pike. From Wordnik.com. [A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass] Reference
Groceteria, insular, monomaniacal, abysmally and shaddock took out five spellers in round eight; simultaneity, lapidarian, braillist and pertussis ended the contest for another four in round nine. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
I did not realize it at the time, but the lapidarian-religious-medical meanings of cleavage had only recently been joined by a new sense of “the cleft between a woman’s breasts as revealed by a low-cut décolletage.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Borat than spiritually evolved visitor from another planet - get at the larger ones about the culture with a lapidarian precision that's absolutely ruthless in its sincerity and innocence. ". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
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