1. Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behaviour, habits, or beliefs
   "an ossified bureaucratic system";
   - fossilized, fossilised [Brit]
    
2. (biology) converted into or formed into bone
   "ossified cartilage"

1. Become bony
   "The tissue ossified"
    
2. Cause to become hard and bony
   "The disease ossified the tissue"
    
3. Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
   "ossified teaching methods";
   - rigidify, petrify

See also: inflexible

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

Encyclopedia: Ossified