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petrific, a. Now rare.|pɪˈtrɪfɪk|
[ad. med.L. petrific-us, f. petra rock, stone: see -fic.]
1. Having the quality of petrifying; making something into stone, or as hard as stone; petrifactive, petrifying; in Path. causing the formation of ‘stone’ or calculus.
1667Milton P.L. x. 293 The aggregated Soyle Death with his Mace petrific..As with a Trident smote. 1670W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 136 Indued with a deopilative, and (if I may so say) antipetrifick property. 1695Congreve Taking of Namure xi, Wing'd Perseus, with Petrifick shield Of Gorgon's head. 1746Simon in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 308 Convinced of the petrific Quality in some Parts of the Lough. 1811W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXI. 448 The progress of petrific conversion may be traced to a considerable depth in contiguous..strata. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 44 Stiffened, as by the petrific touch of Death.
fig.1729Savage Wanderer i. 56 [Winter's] Breath A nitrous Damp, that strikes petrific Death. 1782F. Burney Cecilia vi. ii, A look meant to be nothing less than petrific. 1837De Quincey in Tait's Mag. IV. 69 No society is..so cheerless and petrific in its influence upon others.
2. Loosely in passive sense: Petrified, stony.
1804A. Seward Mem. Darwin 214 Marble and other petrific substances. 1888F. P. Noble in Chicago Advance 10 May 290 In Heidelberg, Calvinism is plastic, Scriptural, dynamic; in Westminster, petrific, scholastic, dogmatic. |