interlapidate

To fit in between each other like stones in a building.

Verb

  1. To fit in between each other like stones in a building.
    • Combinations of the mechanics and lower craftsmen…interlapidated and cemented as they all are, each in the club of his own trade. - 1814 November 2nd, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Justice Fletcher, in Essays on...

Origin

From inter- + Latin lapid- (“stone”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), after interfoliate.

Forms

interlapidates interlapidating interlapidated