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Lapidary vs Stonecutting - What's the difference?

lapidary | stonecutting |

As nouns the difference between lapidary and stonecutting

is that lapidary is a person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems while stonecutting is the hewing or dressing of stone.

As an adjective lapidary

is pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.

lapidary

Noun

(lapidaries)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * lapidary's lathe * lapidary's mill * lapidary's wheel

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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)
  • stonecutting

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The hewing or dressing of stone.