ossified
- hardened like or into bone.
- Slang. drunk.
Origin of ossified
ossify
- to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
- to become bone or harden like bone.
- to become rigid or inflexible in habits, attitudes, opinions, etc.: a young man who began to ossify right after college.
Origin of ossify
Examples from the Web for ossified
Contemporary Examples of ossified
Who would you think more likely to reform an ossified economic system?
Although it makes no sense, this simplistic line has been repeated ad nauseam until it has ossified into accepted fact.
She only wrote two novels, but they establish her as the chronicler of an ossified generation unable to move forward in life.
Historical Examples of ossified
The joints are less supple; the arteries are more or less "ossified."
Over the TeacupsOliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The vertebræ were not ossified, for no trace of them has been found.
The Elements of GeologyWilliam Harmon Norton
It is not necessary to be a contortionist, nor will it answer to be an ossified freak.
Riding and DrivingEdward L. Anderson
The notochord is restricted and replaced by ossified vertebræ.
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)David Starr Jordan
The mandible has a distinct splenial, and the articular is ossified.
The Vertebrate SkeletonSidney H. Reynolds
ossified
- converted into bone
- having become set and inflexible
- Irish slang intoxicated; drunk
ossify
- to convert or be converted into bone
- (intr) (of habits, attitudes, etc) to become inflexible
Word Origin for ossify
Word Origin and History for ossified
ossify
ossify
(ŏs′ə-fī′)- To change into bone.