fossilized, fossilised, ossified
(adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; “obsolete fossilized ways”; “an ossified bureaucratic system”
ossify
(verb) become bony; “The tissue ossified”
ossify
(verb) cause to become hard and bony; “The disease ossified the tissue”
rigidify, ossify, petrify
(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; “rigidify the training schedule”; “ossified teaching methods”; “slogans petrify our thinking”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ossified (comparative more ossified, superlative most ossified)
Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone).
(of ideas or attitudes) Inflexible, old-fashioned.
(Ireland, US, slang) Drunk
• (of ideas: inflexible, old-fashioned): deep-seated, démodé, established, fixed, hard-and-fast, inflexible, ingrained, old-fashioned, outdated, outmoded, out of date, passé, rigid
• (drunk): blocked, locked, scuttered; See also drunk
ossified
simple past tense and past participle of ossify
Source: Wiktionary
Os"si*fied, a.
Definition: Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.
Os"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ossified; p. pr. & vb. n. Ossifying.] Etym: [L. os, ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier. See Osseous.]
1. (Physiol.)
Definition: To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. Ruskin.
Os"si*fy, v. i. (Physiol.)
Definition: To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
