ossified
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This process is ossification. (source) David Almond, Skellig, 1998
ossification = the process of becoming rigid and inflexible

All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949
ossified = became rigid and inflexible

I could tell you the ossification pattern for fetal bones, but that's about it.† (source)

Time solidifies, ossifies the waiting into molecules of stone, dark microscopic planets that swirl through the universe of my body waiting for light and the morning.† (source) Joy Kogawa, Obasan, 1981

—merely rational thought leaves the mind incurably crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past.† (source) John Gardner, Grendel, 1971

It's better than going to open mike night at Ossify and watching some guy recite his shopping list over a drumbeat.† (source) Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, 2009

Shiny slabs of black rock, ossified lava flow, covered much of the ground.† (source)

We protect mundanes we do not love from forces of which they remain ignorant, and an ancient, ossified Law prevents us from revealing ourselves as their saviors.† (source)

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"Look," Esther said, "I'm not saying we have to go to Ossify.† (source) Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, 2009

stages of gradual collapsing whose particles adhere not to some iron and still impervious framework but to one another as though in some communal and oblivious and mindless life of their own like a colony of maggots, but as the demon himself had grown old with a kind of condensation, an anguished emergence of the primary indomitable ossification which the soft color and texture, the light electric aura of youth, had merely temporarily assuaged but never concealed—the spinster in homemade and shapeless clothing, with hands which could either transfer eggs or hold a plow straight in furrow) decided that he should be driven in to that same Methodist church in town where he had married he† (source)

This was what slavery could do, in the way of ossifying what one may call the superior lobe of human feeling; for these pilgrims were kind-hearted people, and they would not have allowed that man to treat a horse like that.† (source)

The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneae were yellow on account of his great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement was betrayed by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged hands, which quivered all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: "Marius!"† (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.† (source)

Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.† (source) Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991

To them might be added a long list of common American synonyms for /drunk/, for example, /piffled/, /pifflicated/, /awry-eyed/, /tanked/, /snooted/, /stewed/, /ossified/, /slopped/, /fiddled/, /edged/, /loaded/, /het-up/, /frazzled/, /jugged/, /soused/, /jiggered/, /corned/, /jagged/ and /bunned/.† (source)

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