Crossword clues for ossifying
ossifying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ossifying \Os"si*fy`ing\, a. (Physiol.) Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.
Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ossified; p. pr. & vb. n. Ossifying.] [L. os, ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier. See Osseous.]
(Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
(Fig.): To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
--Ruskin.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of ossify English)
Usage examples of "ossifying".
Early on, Zilin had learned that formularization was second only to rote in ossifying creative thinking.
When we're younger, just beginning to be awed by the size of the world, its long history, its multitudinous possibilities, and not yet complacent in our ossifying worldviews, wonder is much easier to achieve.
This was what slavery could do, in the way of ossifying what one may call the superior lobe of human feeling.
It did indeed feel as if the blood were congealing in his ossifying veins.