Lewis Short
lăpĭdātĭo (noun F) : lapido
* A throwing of stones, a stoning (class.).
* Lit.: fit magna lapidatio,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 95: magna,id. de Or. 2, 47, 197; id. Dom. 6, 14; Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 73.—In plur.: lapidationes persaepe vidimus,Cic. Sest. 36, 77.
* A shower of stones (post-class.): non diu lapidatione terruere Romanos,Flor. 3, 9, 6.—Transf., a hail-storm: grandinis lapidatio, Imp. Constant. Cod. 9, 18, 4.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary