lapidify

verb

1. (intransitive)To become stone or stony.
2. (transitive)To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
3. (transitive)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.”