The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calcified \Cal"ci*fied\ (k[a^]l"s[i^]*f[imac]d), a. Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.
Calcify \Cal"ci*fy\ (k[a^]l"s[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Calcified (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Calcifying.] [L. calx, calcis, lime + -fy.] To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Wiktionary
1 hardened from the deposit of calcium salts. 2 That which is to become unchanging or inflexible. v
(en-past of: calcify)
WordNet
See calcify
Usage examples of "calcified".
The other pirate, Kidd, had broken his leg in the past: The ends of the bone around the fracture were abraded and calcified, and the break had not knitted together well.
Stooping, he went twenty feet up the tunnel, then fished a piezoelectric sensor from his satchel and drove it into the calcified earth.
The entirety of the city was crisscrossed with massive calcified webs set aglow with magic, a hundred or more layers of pathways that ran every direction and supported the population.
It fell to the calcified pavement and shattered, spilling only the trickle that remained.
She observed them as they disappeared down one of the calcified webs that served as a street in the unusual city.
She studied the myriad lines of calcified webs that stretched across from one side of the massive cavern to the other, glowing faintly with magical, flickering light as far as the eye could see.
He made certain to spend most of his time floating from section to section, avoiding completely the calcified webbing ladders that connected different levels.
She saw, too, that the fire it had started with its incendiary pots had already burned through a significant portion of the calcified webbing that was the street, and it was coming apart.
Where the calcified webbing broadened into a plaza it was still solid and firm.
The whole length of the calcified webbing was unstable, listing sharply to one side.
There was no threat or anger here, only a kind of wounded wonder at the mystery of how a loved one who had walked, slept, and eaten beside you could be rendered to a few calcified fragments.
A stream had eroded the bottom into a gorge, and they had to edge along the wall, brushing their hands against the slippery, calcified coating on the rocks.