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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs;
- Example: "obsolete fossilized ways"
- Example: "an ossified bureaucratic system"
[syn: fossilized, fossilised, ossified]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ossified adj 1: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system" [syn: fossilized, fossilised, ossified]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "ossified": backed, bone, bony, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, osteal, petrified, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, toughened, vitrified