lapidify

verb3

1. •
   To become stone or stony.
2. •
   To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
3. •
   To cause to become permanent; to solidify.

   • The rule of the Abang, in an age when the techniques existed to lapidify any rule to permanency, was, because of the very rise of a party, doomed. — 1958