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Перевод: lapidary

[прилагательное]
гранильный; выгравированный на камне; лапидарный; краткий (о стиле);
[существительное]
гранильная работа; гранильщик драгоценных камней

Тезаурус:

1. Although continuing to draw upon Classical as well as earlier Christian sources, the lapidary compiled in Latin hexameters by Marbode, bishop of Rennes, between 1067 and 1081 sought to lay a greater emphasis on moral themes.
2. ALMOST every member of the Wessex Lapidary Society was present at their April meeting in the annexe of Old Alresford Place on Tuesday evening last week.
3. An agency is not a sort of plate-glass fun-palace in which bejeaned intellectuals dash off a few lapidary phrases in praise of Surf or Oxo between polishing the rhyme schemes of their latest book of sonnets or (more likely) the lyrics of the next chart-topper.
4. What we are groping for, what Pound (we now see) is inciting us to grope for, what Yeats is laying claim to, is that effect in writing which an earlier criticism knew as "lapidary": that is to say, the effect or the illusion of words as not written or printed on a page, but as incised on a stone block.
5. To go for the lapidary effect as such is sterile; one tries for the lapidary because, if achieved, it is a guarantee of the verity of one's feeling - Christian or non-Christian, as the case may be.
6. Nicol explained ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. xvi, 1834) that the preparation of thin slices of fossil wood was nothing new, for Sanderson, an Edinburgh lapidary, had already obtained transparent sections by a difficult and uncertain process.
7. It is partly up to them to break free of their role as craftsmen and craftswomen working to order and to surprise us, as Ralph Beyer consistently does, with lapidary writing that operates as a literary form with a sculptural presence.
8. A nautical lapidary accordingly recommended a variety of precious substances to ward off such dangers.
9. The very difficulty and high cost of cutting neat letters in stone helped to foster the close-packed, "lapidary" style.