Fossilized

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fossilized \Fos"sil*ized\, a.
     Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or
     opinions.
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           A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. --Earle.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fossilize \Fos"sil*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fossilized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Fossilizing}.] [Cf. F. fossiliser.]
     1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize
        bones or wood.
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     2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
        fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
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              Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head
              Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs.
                                                    Browning.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fossilized
       adj : set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits,
             or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified
             bureaucratic system" [syn: {fossilised}, {ossified}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "fossilized":
     Gothic, Victorian, anile, antediluvian, antiquated, antique,
     archaic, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened,
     classical, crabbed, crusted, crusty, crystallized, debilitated,
     decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery, feeble, fossil, gerontal,
     gerontic, granulated, grown old, hardened, hornified, incrusted,
     indurate, indurated, infirm, lapidified, medieval, mid-Victorian,
     mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, of other times, old-world,
     ossified, palsied, papery-skinned, petrified, ravaged with age,
     reinforced, rickety, rigidified, run to seed, rusty, sclerotic,
     senile, set, shaky, shriveled, solidified, steeled, stiffened,
     strengthened, stricken in years, superannuated, timeworn,
     tottering, tottery, toughened, vitrified, weak, withered,
     wizened