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petrefact|ˈpɛtrɪfækt|
Also petrifact.
[f. L. petra rock, stone, after artefact.]
An object made of stone; also fig., something that has become hardened or fixed.
1911Beerbohm And Even Now (1920) 39 He..does strive, by day and by night, poor petrefact, to rip off these fell and clownish integuments... He forgets that after all he is only a statue. 1932Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 313 Those in whom space perception is still of the early, plastic form frequent among children, in whom the later ‘petrefacts’ have not yet been crystallized out..should be primary colour perceptors. 1975Encounter Sept. 86 In Germany, in any case, he destroyed numerous outdated structures, did away with old classes, smashed to pieces revered petrifacts. |