ossify
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
ossify
- (ambitransitive) To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
- 1884, Arthur C. Cole, Studies in Microscopical Science, page 35 ↗,
- […] , nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the samе period of time.
- 1884, Arthur C. Cole, Studies in Microscopical Science, page 35 ↗,
- (ambitransitive, animate) To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
- 1996, Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View , page 96,
- Before long, the entire organization ossifies.
- 2006, Michael S. Jones, Metaphysics of Religion: Lucian Blaga and Contemporary Philosophy , page 79,
- Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;
- 1996, Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View , page 96,
- (ambitransitive, inanimate) To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
- 1886, Karl Marx, translated by Samuel Moore, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 14,
- This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour.
- 2001, Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Kevin O'Neill and David Suchoff, The Wisdom of Love , page 55,
- Now, in turn, we apply a revolutionary critique that […] ossifies into a rhetoric to become "the monstrous Latin of a monstrous church."
- 2005, Michelle Goldberg, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080306224258/http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2005/12/20/munich/index.html The war on 'Munich']", Salon.com, December 20, 2005,
- [T]he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is.
- 1886, Karl Marx, translated by Samuel Moore, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 14,
- (rare) To calcify.
- 1850, Roxey Ann Caplin, Health and Beauty, Chapter X,
- The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.
- 1850, Roxey Ann Caplin, Health and Beauty, Chapter X,
- (become inflexible and rigid) harden
- Russian: костенеть
- Spanish: osificar
- Russian: черстветь
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