Lapis Definition

Lapis Sentence Examples

• Gold and lapis lazuli are found in other parts of the island.

• As early at least as the ith century the art of extracting a blue pigment from lapis lazuli was practised, and from the beginning of the 16th century this pigment began to be imported into Europe from "over the sea," as azurrum ultramarinum.

• The composition of the pigment is quite similar to that of lapis lazuli; but the constitution of both is uncertain.

• The mineral was probably included with selenite under Pliny's term lapis specularis.

• The lapis specularis of Pliny, scattered over the Circus Maximus to produce a shining whiteness, was probably mica.