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calcify, v. Phys.|ˈkælsɪfaɪ|
[f. L. calc(i)- lime + -fy; on the type of a L. *calci-ficāre, F. calcifier.]
1. trans. To convert into lime; to replace other matter by lime; to harden by the deposit of lime.
1854Woodward Mollusca (1856) 42 Each layer was successively calcified..and thrown off by the mantle to unite with those previously formed. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. iii. 97 The stones are gradually dissolved, and serve to calcify and harden the new skin.
2. intr. To become calcified; see prec. sense.
1859J. Tomes Dent. Surg. (1873) 3 The edges of the front teeth first assume their full dimensions in the form of pulp, and then calcify. 1876tr. Wagner's Pathol. 259 The fibrin calcifies, becoming a fixed, continuous stone-like mass.
Hence ˈcalcified ppl. a.; ˈcalcifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1836Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. I. 116/1 The chorion of the ova is generally thin or coriaceous, seldom calcified or hard. Ibid. II. 381/2 The calcifying fluid from which the shell is formed. 1875Blake Zool. 233 The calcifying processes continue to deposit shelly material. 1880Gunther Fishes 315 Covered with calcified papillæ. |