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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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"Ossification" Quotes from Famous Books

... composed of human sculls and thigh-bones; the thigh-bones are laid across each other, and a scull is placed in each of the four angles. Among the sculls one is very remarkable; the upper and the lower jaw, on one side, perfectly and firmly cohere; how the ossification which unites them was formed, it is not perhaps very easy to conceive, but it is certain that the patient must have lived some time without opening his mouth: What nourishment he received was conveyed through a hole which we discovered to have been made on the other side, by forcing out ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr

... hearts respond to the truth of this—to call evil, good, and good, evil—to see the Divinest good, and call it Satanic evil—below this lowest deep there is not a lower still. There is no cure for mortification of the flesh—there is no remedy for ossification of the heart. Oh! that miserable state, when to the jaundiced eye all good transforms itself into evil, and the very instruments of health become the poison of disease. Beware of every approach of this!—Beware of that spirit ...

— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson

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