Found 2 items, similar to Ossified.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ossified ossified adj 1: changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; “cartilages ossified with age” 2: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; “obsolete fossilized ways”; “an ossified bureaucratic system” [syn: fossilized, fossilised] ossify v 1: become bony; “The tissue ossified” 2: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; “rigidify the training schedule”; “ossified teaching methods”; “slogans petrify our thinking” [syn: rigidify, petrify] 3: cause to become hard and bony; “The disease ossified the tissue” [also: ossified] ossified See ossify
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ossified Ossified \Os"si*fied\, a. Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues. [1913 Webster] Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ossified; p. pr. & vb. n. Ossifying.] [L. os, ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier. See Osseous.] 1. (Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts. [1913 Webster] 2. (Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin. [1913 Webster]