OSSIFIED

fossilized, fossilised, ossified

(adjective) set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; “obsolete fossilized ways”; “an ossified bureaucratic system”

OSSIFY

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


Adjective

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

Synonyms

• (of ideas: inflexible, old-fashioned): deep-seated, dĂ©modĂ©, established, fixed, hard-and-fast, inflexible, ingrained, old-fashioned, outdated, outmoded, out of date, passĂ©, rigid

• (drunk): blocked, locked, scuttered; See also drunk

Verb

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.

OSSIFY

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



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