(n.) An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.
(n.) A virtuoso skilled in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation.
(a.) Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(2) Earlier this week Kakutani's review of the novel – Franzen's first since his 2001 hit The Corrections – praised its "visceral and lapidary" prose, calling the author "as adept at adolescent comedy ... as he is at grown-up tragedy" and applauding "his ability to throw open a big, Updikean picture window on American middle-class life".
(3) In contrast, his recently installed ceiling at the Salle des Bronzes in the Louvre offers a more serene vision of the classical tradition, with its lapidary inscriptions alluding to ancient Greek sculptors set against an intense blue background.
(4) In five of the cases, exposure was in small and poorly regulated lapidaries without specific dust control measures.
(5) The sixth was detected during the course of a health and hygiene survey (including dust sampling) that was conducted in one of two lapidaries still operating in our area.
(6) The opening lines of his study are typical of his lapidary style: "Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat.
(7) But for a while he spoke only in lapidary epigrams.
(8) Picoult also criticised Kakutani's use of the word "lapidary".
(9) They had been employed as stone sculptors in lapidaries where they processed tiger's-eye, rose quartz, amethyst, quartz crystal, and a variety of other locally occurring semiprecious stones.
Treatise
Definition:
(n.) A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.
(n.) Story; discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
(2) It is not a theological treatise.” Furthermore, the writer meant that as praise.
(3) Coming off an honorary Oscar win at last month’s Governors Awards , Lee has delivered one of his most daring and accomplished films to date with Chi-Raq, which transplants the Greek play Lysistrata to modern-day Chicago, to offer a passionate treatise on the gun epidemic that has crippled America.
(4) "The text in itself is probably not a landmark work of Islamic jurisprudence, but it is important because it adds to … a corpus of treatises by former militants challenging al-Qaida on theological grounds," Thomas Hegghammer of Harvard University said on the Jihadica website.
(5) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
(6) He studied Hippocrates' Airs, Waters and Places, which deals with environmental factors, and the treatise On Regimen especially thoroughly.
(7) During his stay in Berlin for many years Bilguer wrote a number of treatises, in which he expressed his opinion to many medical scientific problems and again to questions of an improved treatment of patients.
(8) Described in an excellent clinical treatise some 8 decades before the advent of radiographs, this fracture of the distal radius continues to pose a source of some disability to large numbers of patients.
(9) The writer Jon Savage is the author of the punk rock history England's Dreaming, and the epic cultural treatise Teenage, recently turned into a feature-length documentary .
(10) His pervasive influence within the field of philanthropy stems more than anything from his treatise on 'wealth' , known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' , where he concludes: "the problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship."
(11) In 1627, William Harvey was writing notes for a treatise on the movement of animals, De motu locali animalium, which in the event he neither published nor completed.
(12) Resuming his treatise the author confirms that not yet all sources are used to solve the problems regarded.
(13) Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
(14) In this part of the treatise is accentuated above all the situation of the forties of our century, in which the processes of academic graduation more than ever before could become a political fact.
(15) The third part of a treatise concerning a viatorium medico-historicum which deals with the region of Saxony-Anhalt leads through the areas of the Harz mountains and their piedmont.
(16) 20, 934-940] pathway for the formation of triacylglycerols when compared with other oil-rich plant species that have been studied [Stymne & Stobart (1987) The Biochemistry of Plants: a Comprehensive Treatise (Stumpf, P.K., ed.
(17) Friedrich Arnold's neuroanatomical treatise Icones nervorum capitis published in its first edition in Heidelberg 1834 ranks scientifically and iconographically among the most brilliant works of 19th century anatomical literature.
(18) Some implications of this treatise for modern psychiatry are discussed.
(19) During these years in Italy, Twombly's output sometimes reflected developments in the rest of the world: for example, as minimalist artists were creating a stir in America and Europe , in the late 1960s Twombly executed six monochrome canvases, the Treatise on the Veil, which are completely blank apart from measurements written in crayon over the grey paint.
(20) In her seminal treatise Man Made Language , the feminist theorist Dale Spender makes the argument that language is a system that embodies sexual inequality.