Ossified

Word OSSIFIED
Character 8
Hyphenation os si fied
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Ossified"

What do we mean by ossified?

Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone).

(of ideas or attitudes) Inflexible, old-fashioned.

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The word "ossified" in example sentences

Analogous to the bony tissues are the so-called ossified (really, calcified) arteries. ❋ Various (N/A)

“The existing seem has been kind of ossified,” he said. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Introducing the annual report today, Thompson said that setting "appropriate limits" for the BBC's online operation would not mean that services "ossified". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, they argue, Republicans need to be seen as a party with new ideas for reforming "ossified" features of that very government, particularly regulatory and tort systems that are behind the times, and an education system that needs to make teachers both better paid and more accountable for their performance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To inspire the state, Spitzer vows to flush out the "ossified" systems of government in Albany; to spur the economy, he wants to trim taxes and lance a bloated health-care system. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If anything indicates the trouble we are in, it has to be the dessicated, ossified, meaningless mumbo-jumbo of church ritual today. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Is that something you really want to see, that kind of ossified thinking in a bureaucratic organization like Homeland Security? ❋ Unknown (2005)

DOBBS: The Columbia accident investigation board, as you know, they basically demanded that that kind of ossified response that was repetitive of the bureaucracy, frankly, of NASA. ❋ Unknown (2005)

So that around the bones there eventually appears a beautiful turquoise casing; the bone centre is also coloured like its casing, though not entirely losing its bony characteristics, so that it really forms a kind of ossified turquoise, surrounded by real turquoise, and this is called the "bone turquoise" or "odontolite." ❋ John Mastin (N/A)

Islam has been "ossified," _i. e._, rendered rigid and unprogressive. ❋ Ahmed Hussain (N/A)

And the worst of it was, I couldn't tell him just the particular kind of ossified old pinhead I thought he was. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

Although ... that would NOT explain the 65 after his/her name. which would explain his 'ossified' thinking and possibly explain his/her embittered outlook good point lloyd. and one for which the propelleft (TM) have no answer. it wasn't even the speech that was the problem. it was the sheer vapidness that did it in. and a sucky business model. lloydm65 and beavith1 -- ❋ Unknown (2009)

Edgkin says he was under the impression that Tom trafficked in that kind of ossified, calcified corporate slang to cocoon the listener in the gentle jelly of compromise. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I thought that's the kind of ossified, calcified corporate kinda stuff that you do that kinda cocoons the listener in a sorta gentle jelly of compromise." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The left is fragmented among a number of parties that are increasingly taking radical positions in response to populist pressures, including opposition to the free trade pact with the U.S. The ruling party is perceived as a corrupt, business-dominated entity ruled by an ossified oligarchy under the daughter of the country's former autocratic leader, Park Chung-hee. ❋ Michael Auslin (2011)

The idea that the text exists as its own entity, outside of context or its times, is one of the ideologies of the New Criticism — thereby highlighting how every approach can be ossified into an - ism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An idealistic socialist, he set out to revitalize the communist order he had inherited, to inject open discussion, creativity, and common sense into an ossified Leninist party. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

But most importantly, if everybody is going to learn French or other languages, then why in the world would we start the process or even think that the heart of the process would be starting when people are 18 or 19 years old, when at that age, our ability to master foreign languages in any real way has already ossified, and the science is in on that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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