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petrification Now rare.|ˈpɛtrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[a. F. pétrification (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) = It. petrificazione, † -atione (Florio), L. type (prob. in mod.L.) *petrificātio, n. of action from *petrificāre, pétrifier, petrify. For this the non-etymological petrifaction has been substituted.]
1. = petrifaction 1.
1611Cotgr., Petrification, a petrification; a making stonie, a turning into stone. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 91 We have..visible petrification of wood in many waters. 1665–6Phil. Trans. I. 320 Much has been already said and written of Petrification. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 132 It is the Lime alone, that creates the Petrification. 1882Geikie Text-bk. Geol. v. 611 The only true petrification..consists in the abstraction of the organic substances, molecule by molecule, and in their replacement by precipitated mineral matter.
b. fig. = petrifaction 1 b.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §1. 193 Mortification or petrification of the soul. 1681H. Hallywell Melampron. Introd. B, This state and condition he terms..a Petrification or Mortification of the Mind. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. x, A widowed female glaring petrification at her fellow creatures. 1891Daily News 28 Apr. 6/2 The misfortune was that the contagion of petrification had spread to the free churches.
2. concr. = petrifaction 2.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. ii. §26 Incrustations are petrifications, made by such waters as let fall their stony particles. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. III. 579 Great numbers of petrifications, more particularly of marine shells and plants, are found among them. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 61 Flints never having been found to contain petrifications, or the marks of any organized body. |