† ossifiantadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Ossifying. In quot. figurative: becoming hard and rigid.
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ossific1638
ossified1695
ossifying1722
ossificated1727
symphysial1835
osteogenetic1857
ossifiant1860
osteogenic1860
parosteal1869
ossificatory1870
osteoplastic1870
parostotic1870
osteogenous1872
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1860 J. Ruskin Unto this Last i, in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 156 Assuming, not that the human being has no skeleton, but that it is all skeleton, it founds an ossifiant theory of progress on this negation of a soul.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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