Ossify
English Meaning
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
- To change into bone; become bony.
- To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern: "The central ideas of liberalism have ossified” ( Jeffrey Hart).
- To convert (a membrane or cartilage, for example) into bone.
- To mold into a rigidly conventional pattern.