OSSIFY


Meaning of OSSIFY in English

[os.si.fy] vb -fied ; -fy.ing [L oss-, os + E -ify] vi (1713) 1: to change into bone

2: to become hardened or conventional and opposed to change ~ vt 1: to change (as cartilage) into bone

2: to make rigidly conventional and opposed to change

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