Lapidary vs Engraver - What's the difference?
lapidary | engraver |
A person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.
:2005 Peter G. Read, "Gemmology"
:*in the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones.
An expert in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
(archaic) A treatise on precious stones.
Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise; embodying the refinement and precision characteristic of stone-cutting.
:* 2000': The sole truth was that supplied by mathematics or by such '''lapidary propositions as “What's done cannot be undone,” which was irrefutably correct. — Karen Armstrong, ''The Battle for God (Harper 2004, p. 71)