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petrified, ppl. a.|ˈpɛtrɪfaɪd|
[f. petrify v.]
1. a. Changed into stone or stony substance. Esp. in phr. petrified forest.
1667H. Stubbe in Phil. Trans. II. 499 Upon those other Plants with petrified roots there gathers a Lime-stone. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 40 Some of the Piers were much more petrified than others. Ibid. 52 We met with very large Cakes of the petrified Sand. 1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) 442 Petrified fish have been discovered in solid rocks in the very attitude of seizing and swallowing their prey. 1830Illinois Monthly Mag. Oct. 31 The earth's surface is literally covered with stumps, roots and limbs of petrified trees; presenting the appearance of a ‘Petrified Forest’. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 649 The countless petrified remains known by the names of Hamites, Lituites, Orthoceratites, Cyrtoceratites. 1873S. W. Cozzens Marvellous Country 76 We came upon the remains of a petrified forest,..converted by some chemical process into specimens of variegated jasper. 1937M. Huxley Let. 13 Oct. in Lett. A. Huxley (1969) 425 We drove through all the view places and the petrified forests and the grand-canyons. 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 196 Petrified wood. The most interesting and highly prized results of wood transformed into rock, are examples from the several petrified forests which exist in various parts of the world. Ibid. 197 Two of the most famous of the petrified forests are situated in the U.S.A.—one at the Yellowstone National Park.., the other in Chalcedony Park, Arizona.
b. transf. and fig. Represented or embodied in stone.
1634Habington Castara (Arb.) 50 Spencer hath a Stone; and Draytons browes Stand petrified ith'wall, with Laurell bowes Yet girt about. 1889J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 106 Our cathedrals, abbeys, and ancient churches are truly petrified poems.
2. fig. Hardened, stiffened, ‘paralysed’ with surprise, etc.; terrified, extremely frightened; also const. of. See petrify v. 2.
1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xix. 533 Melt the Petrified Obduracy of this Harden'd Heart! 1790H. More Relig. Fash. World (1791) 210 How would the petrified enquirer be astonished. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxxvi, This petrified coldness was better than a passionate, futile opposition. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xlvi. 481 A great herd of curious-looking Syrian goats and sheep were gratefully eating gravel. I do not state this as a petrified fact. I only suppose they were eating gravel, because there did not appear to be any thing else for them to eat. 1870Max Müller Sc. Relig. (1873) 67 A careful interpretation of the petrified language of ancient India and Greece. 1875― Sk. New & Old 219 Here, here, you petrified fool. 1963R. Wolff I, Keturah (1964) ii. xvii. 229, I was petrified of all the gadgets. 1968Observer 7 Jan. 28/6 [They] think they want the foreign flavour; but actually couldn't be more petrified of it. 1974W. J. Burley Death in Stanley St. xi. 186 He was trying to get at the gun... I was petrified! |