Ossify Definition

ŏsə-fī
ossified, ossifies, ossifying
verb
ossified, ossifies, ossifying
To change or develop into bone.
Webster's New World
To settle or fix rigidly in a practice, custom, attitude, etc.
Webster's New World
To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern.
American Heritage
To convert (a membrane or cartilage, for example) into bone.
American Heritage
To mold into a rigidly conventional pattern.
American Heritage
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Origin of Ossify

  • Latin os oss- bone ost- in Indo-European roots –fy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin os, ossis (“bone") + -ify

    From Wiktionary

Ossify Sentence Examples

  • When a religion begins to ossify into a system of formulas and observances, those who protest in the name of heart-religion are not unfrequently known by the name of mystics.

  • In their case the sternum begins to ossify from three very distinct points - one of which is the centre of ossification of Nitzsch's grouping.

  • For permaculture to remain alive - and not ossify into dogma - it must also change.

  • In the lower jaw of most of the Ecaudata the symphysial cartilages ossify separately from the dentary bones, forming the so-called mento-meckelian bones; but these symphysial bones, so distinct in the frog, are less so in the Hylidae and Bufonidae, almost indistinguishable in the Pelobatidae and Discoglossidae, whilst in the Aglossa they do not exist any more than in the other orders of batrachians.

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Words Starting With

OOSOSS

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YFYIFY

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