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Ossification

noun

The developmental process of bone formation.

The calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material.

The process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior.

Hardened conventionality. Synonym: conformity.

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... be a politician," returned the old man, gazing after him. "There are a few joints in a man that he ought to be able to bend in politics, but Harlan seems to be afflicted with a sort of righteous ossification. He'll have to have ...

— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

... Avicenna from the same regions to dispute with him on the false notions he had promulgated respecting alchymy, and especially regarding potable gold and the elixir of life. He imagined that gold could cure ossification of the heart, and, in fact, all diseases, if it were gold which had been transmuted from an inferior metal by means of the philosopher's stone, and if it were applied under certain conjunctions of the planets. The mere list ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay

Words linked to "Ossification" : conventionality, ossify, conventionalism, organic process, calcification, convention, biological process, human process