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Fossilised

adjective
1.
Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs.  Synonyms: fossilized, ossified.  "An ossified bureaucratic system"





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"Fossilised" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sand with their heads facing the opposite quarter. We saw also several skeletons of the large cayman (some with the horny and bony hide of the animal nearly perfect) embedded in the sand; they reminded me of the remains of Ichthyosauri fossilised in beds of lias, with the difference of being buried in fine sand instead of in blue mud. I marked the place of one which had a well-preserved skull, and the next day returned to secure it. The specimen is now in the British Museum collection. ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates


Words linked to "Fossilised" :   ossified, fossilized, inflexible


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