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Adjective: ossified  'ó-si,fId
  1. Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behaviour, habits, or beliefs
    "an ossified bureaucratic system";
    - fossilized, fossilised [Brit]
Verb: ossify  'ó-si,fI
  1. Become bony
    "The tissue ossified"
     
  2. Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
    "ossified teaching methods";
    - rigidify, petrify
     
  3. Cause to become hard and bony
    "The disease ossified the tissue"

See also: inflexible

Type of: alter, change, change state, modify, stiffen, turn

Encyclopedia: Ossified

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