ossifyv.

Brit.

/ˈɒsᵻfʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈɑsəˌfaɪ/

Forms: 1600s– ossify, 1700s ossifie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: ossi- comb. form, -fy suffix.

Etymology: < ossi- comb. form + -fy suffix, after post-classical Latin ossificare (1641 or earlier). Compare French ossifier (1690 or earlier).

a. transitive. To convert into bone; to initiate or promote ossification in; to harden, to make like bone, to calcify. Originally usually in passive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [verb (transitive)]

ossify1670

co-ossify1877

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > maintain [verb (transitive)]

i-haldOE

sustainc1300

keepc1315

maintainc1390

conservea1425

continuec1460

entertain1490

persevere1502

uphold?1523

containa1538

petrifya1631

conservate1647

to keep on1669

to keep up1670

preserve1677

support1696

fix1712

ossify1800

fossilize1848

1670 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 4) xxiii. 504 Many thousands of great Rarities.., as Beasts, Birds, Fishes,..Seeds, Minerals, Earths, some things petrified, others ossified, Mummies, Gummes, &c.

1699 tr. de La Vauguion Compl. Body Chirurg. Operations lxviii. 383 There are no bones in a fœtus which are sooner ossified, than the clavicles which are entirely bony, within six weeks after conception.

1730 J. Cook Anat. & Mech. Ess. 233 It could not have been ossified soon enough for birth.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 227 The coronary arteries..were ossified.

1868 W. K. Parker Monogr. Struct. & Devel. Shoulder-girdle & Sternum Vertebrata 144 In the genus Rhea..there is, on each side, an osseous centre in front of the first rib: it ossifies the costal process.

1928 C. F. Cooper Parker & Haswell's Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 4) II. 78 The outer walls of the olfactory capsules may be ossified by paired ecto-ethmoids.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) vii. 167 These centers may ossify the articular regions of the bone long before the growth of the shaft, the diaphysis, is completed and thus allow the element to function despite incomplete ossification.

b. intransitive. To undergo ossification.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [verb (intransitive)]

ossify1695

co-ossify1877

1695 tr. J. de la Charrière Treat. Chirurg. Operations i. xxxi. 198 This is also when the Bones are only membranous, because they have a kind of spring or elastic virtue, till they begin to ossify [Fr. ils commencent à s'ossifier].

1699 tr. de La Vauguion Compl. Body Chirurg. Operations 159 Aristotle thinks the Fontanel Ossifies, about the time Children begin to speak.

1722 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body (ed. 2) i. i. 1 Flat Bones..begin to ossifie in a middle point.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 32 They become more solid,..and at last ossify.

1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ii. 63 The walls of the two concave vertebral articular cups may ossify.

1912 J. S. Kingsley Compar. Anat. Vertebr. 82 An ‘ascending process’ which reaches the upper margin of the trabecula, and which, in many reptiles, often ossifies as the epipterygoid bone.

1988 Which? July 308/1 If it [sc. the cartilage] ossifies in the wrong shape—..because of ill-fitting footwear—your foot may be deformed.

2. figurative.

a. transitive. To harden; to cause to become emotionally callous; to cause to become rigid or fixed.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make hard or callous

hardc1325

hardenc1350

engrege1382

endurec1384

indurec1450

indurate1538

obduratea1540

brawn1571

hard heart1581

sear1582

cauterize1587

myrmidonize1593

obdure1598

Gorgonize1609

stonea1616

petrifya1631

petrificate1647

roborate1652

case-harden1687

ossify1803

hard-boil1929

1803 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 175 Those minds whose principles, not yet ossified, are capable of affording a less powerful defence.

1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 7 Their withers are wrung, their feelings are ossified.

1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. v. 114 Our phrases, often repeated, ossify the very organs of intelligence.

1877 R. H. Hutton Ess. (ed. 2) I. 10 Long-continued doubt..must in the end ossify the higher parts of the mind.

1923 R. B. Anderson tr. G. Brandes Creative Spirits of 19th Cent. 341 A Steensgaard, in whom the softer, more pliant elements..have been ossified, and in whom, therefore, coarse recklessness alone remains.

1991 Nature 11 Apr. 466/1 To do so would ossify taxonomic data and make further research almost pointless.

b. intransitive. To become emotionally hardened or callous; to become rigid or fixed in attitude, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > resist progress [verb (intransitive)]

petrify1685

ossify1858

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > lack sensitivity [verb (intransitive)] > be callous or hard-hearted > become callous or hard-hearted

fornumb1571

harden1577

ossify1858

1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xv. 297 The natural instinct of veneration had ossified into idolatry.

1891 Church Times 2 Jan. 9/1 It is said in academic circles of a very successful Fellow who rises too rapidly to high place, that he ossifies.

1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four 216 All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft.

1993 Computer Weekly 14 Oct. 34/6 Too many IT people ossify with the IT they are comfortable with.

Derivatives

ˈossifying adj. and n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [noun]

ossification1671

osteogeny1719

ossifying1722

osteogenesis1830

parostosis1868

co-ossification1885

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [adjective]

ossific1638

ossified1695

ossifying1722

ossificated1727

symphysial1835

osteogenetic1857

ossifiant1860

osteogenic1860

parosteal1869

ossificatory1870

osteoplastic1870

parostotic1870

osteogenous1872

symphysian-

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted > that makes callous

callousing1860

indurating1895

ossifying1898

1722 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body (ed. 2) i. i. 2 By the continual addition of this ossifying matter, the Bones encrease.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 32 The ossifying of Bones.

1853 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 1 161 The ossifying boundary of a tooth-pulp.

1898 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer II. iii. 78 His nature had resisted the ossifying process which makes most of us commonplace..in later life.

1908 Daily Chron. 2 Apr. 3/3 The more individual a poet's style, the more more marked is apt to be this stiffening and ossifying of his characteristics.

1965 F. Gerrard Macgregor's Struct. Meat Animals (ed. 2) ii. 11 Cartilage cells that have been so invaded by the ossifying process, however slight, are no longer capable of multiplying.

1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. xii. 35/2 Ossifying fibromas are more common than fibromas and the X-rays show a well-defined radiolucent area with speckled calcification.

1993 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 6 Jan. b8 Freezing old assets this way contributes to an ossifying of the economy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ossify
释义	ossifyv. Brit. /ˈɒsᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈɑsəˌfaɪ/ Forms: 1600s– ossify, 1700s ossifie. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: ossi- comb. form, -fy suffix. Etymology: < ossi- comb. form + -fy suffix, after post-classical Latin ossificare (1641 or earlier). Compare French ossifier (1690 or earlier). 1. a. transitive. To convert into bone; to initiate or promote ossification in; to harden, to make like bone, to calcify. Originally usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [verb (transitive)] ossify1670 co-ossify1877 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > maintain [verb (transitive)] i-haldOE sustainc1300 keepc1315 maintainc1390 conservea1425 continuec1460 entertain1490 persevere1502 uphold?1523 containa1538 petrifya1631 conservate1647 to keep on1669 to keep up1670 preserve1677 support1696 fix1712 ossify1800 fossilize1848 1670 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 4) xxiii. 504 Many thousands of great Rarities.., as Beasts, Birds, Fishes,..Seeds, Minerals, Earths, some things petrified, others ossified, Mummies, Gummes, &c. 1699 tr. de La Vauguion Compl. Body Chirurg. Operations lxviii. 383 There are no bones in a fœtus which are sooner ossified, than the clavicles which are entirely bony, within six weeks after conception. 1730 J. Cook Anat. & Mech. Ess. 233 It could not have been ossified soon enough for birth. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 227 The coronary arteries..were ossified. 1868 W. K. Parker Monogr. Struct. & Devel. Shoulder-girdle & Sternum Vertebrata 144 In the genus Rhea..there is, on each side, an osseous centre in front of the first rib: it ossifies the costal process. 1928 C. F. Cooper Parker & Haswell's Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 4) II. 78 The outer walls of the olfactory capsules may be ossified by paired ecto-ethmoids. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) vii. 167 These centers may ossify the articular regions of the bone long before the growth of the shaft, the diaphysis, is completed and thus allow the element to function despite incomplete ossification. b. intransitive. To undergo ossification. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [verb (intransitive)] ossify1695 co-ossify1877 1695 tr. J. de la Charrière Treat. Chirurg. Operations i. xxxi. 198 This is also when the Bones are only membranous, because they have a kind of spring or elastic virtue, till they begin to ossify [Fr. ils commencent à s'ossifier]. 1699 tr. de La Vauguion Compl. Body Chirurg. Operations 159 Aristotle thinks the Fontanel Ossifies, about the time Children begin to speak. 1722 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body (ed. 2) i. i. 1 Flat Bones..begin to ossifie in a middle point. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 32 They become more solid,..and at last ossify. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ii. 63 The walls of the two concave vertebral articular cups may ossify. 1912 J. S. Kingsley Compar. Anat. Vertebr. 82 An ‘ascending process’ which reaches the upper margin of the trabecula, and which, in many reptiles, often ossifies as the epipterygoid bone. 1988 Which? July 308/1 If it [sc. the cartilage] ossifies in the wrong shape—..because of ill-fitting footwear—your foot may be deformed. 2. figurative. a. transitive. To harden; to cause to become emotionally callous; to cause to become rigid or fixed. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make hard or callous hardc1325 hardenc1350 engrege1382 endurec1384 indurec1450 indurate1538 obduratea1540 brawn1571 hard heart1581 sear1582 cauterize1587 myrmidonize1593 obdure1598 Gorgonize1609 stonea1616 petrifya1631 petrificate1647 roborate1652 case-harden1687 ossify1803 hard-boil1929 1803 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 175 Those minds whose principles, not yet ossified, are capable of affording a less powerful defence. 1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 7 Their withers are wrung, their feelings are ossified. 1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. v. 114 Our phrases, often repeated, ossify the very organs of intelligence. 1877 R. H. Hutton Ess. (ed. 2) I. 10 Long-continued doubt..must in the end ossify the higher parts of the mind. 1923 R. B. Anderson tr. G. Brandes Creative Spirits of 19th Cent. 341 A Steensgaard, in whom the softer, more pliant elements..have been ossified, and in whom, therefore, coarse recklessness alone remains. 1991 Nature 11 Apr. 466/1 To do so would ossify taxonomic data and make further research almost pointless. b. intransitive. To become emotionally hardened or callous; to become rigid or fixed in attitude, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > resist progress [verb (intransitive)] petrify1685 ossify1858 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > lack sensitivity [verb (intransitive)] > be callous or hard-hearted > become callous or hard-hearted fornumb1571 harden1577 ossify1858 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xv. 297 The natural instinct of veneration had ossified into idolatry. 1891 Church Times 2 Jan. 9/1 It is said in academic circles of a very successful Fellow who rises too rapidly to high place, that he ossifies. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four 216 All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. 1993 Computer Weekly 14 Oct. 34/6 Too many IT people ossify with the IT they are comfortable with. Derivatives ˈossifying adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [noun] ossification1671 osteogeny1719 ossifying1722 osteogenesis1830 parostosis1868 co-ossification1885 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > formation of bone > [adjective] ossific1638 ossified1695 ossifying1722 ossificated1727 symphysial1835 osteogenetic1857 ossifiant1860 osteogenic1860 parosteal1869 ossificatory1870 osteoplastic1870 parostotic1870 osteogenous1872 symphysian- the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted > that makes callous callousing1860 indurating1895 ossifying1898 1722 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body (ed. 2) i. i. 2 By the continual addition of this ossifying matter, the Bones encrease. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 32 The ossifying of Bones. 1853 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 1 161 The ossifying boundary of a tooth-pulp. 1898 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer II. iii. 78 His nature had resisted the ossifying process which makes most of us commonplace..in later life. 1908 Daily Chron. 2 Apr. 3/3 The more individual a poet's style, the more more marked is apt to be this stiffening and ossifying of his characteristics. 1965 F. Gerrard Macgregor's Struct. Meat Animals (ed. 2) ii. 11 Cartilage cells that have been so invaded by the ossifying process, however slight, are no longer capable of multiplying. 1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. xii. 35/2 Ossifying fibromas are more common than fibromas and the X-rays show a well-defined radiolucent area with speckled calcification. 1993 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 6 Jan. b8 Freezing old assets this way contributes to an ossifying of the economy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1670
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