ossify

动词 ossify:

1. become bony
2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
   同义词：rigidify, petrify
3. cause to become hard and bony

1. Beliefs have ossified into rigid dogma.
   信仰已僵化为不可更动的教条。

os.si.fy

v.（动词）
os.si.fied,os.si.fy.ing,os.si.fies
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To change into bone; become bony.
骨化；成骨
To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern:
僵化：变得墨守成规：
例句：
.The central ideas of liberalism have ossified.(Jeffrey Hart)
.自由主义的主要观点已变得僵化.(杰弗里·哈特)

v.tr.（及物动词）
To convert (a membrane or cartilage, for example) into bone.
使骨化：使（如细胞膜、软骨等）变为骨头
To mold into a rigidly conventional pattern.
使僵化：使墨守成规

来源：
Latin os oss- [bone] * see ost-
拉丁语 os oss- [骨头] *参见 ost-
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【引伸】
ossif.ic