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English Dictionary: ossify by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): rigidify, ossify, petrify
  3. cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. i. (Physiol.)
      To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony
      tissue.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
      2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin.
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