petrifactn.

Brit.

/ˈpɛtrᵻfakt/, U.S.

/ˈpɛtrəˌfæk(t)/

Forms: 1800s– petrifact, 1900s– petrefact.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin petra , artefact n.

Etymology: < classical Latin petra rock, stone (see petro- comb. form¹) + -fact (in artefact n.). Compare post-classical Latin petrefactum , German Petrefakt fossil (both late 18th cent. or earlier). Compare earlier petrifaction n. 2, petrification n. 2, petrifying n. 1.

An object made of stone; (also) an object formed by petrifaction. Also: (figurative) something that has become hardened or fixed.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > other types of statue

Silenus?1543

round1634

polychrome1801

portrait statue1840

acroterion1842

magot1844

acrolith1847

tekoteko1848

petrifact1875

1875 Harper's Mag. July 241/1 Years ago the cave had been visited at times by an old itinerant dealer in petrifacts, who hunted there for fossil bears' teeth.

1911 M. Beerbohm And Even Now (1920) 39 He..does strive, by day and by night, poor petrefact, to rip off these fell and clownish integuments... He forgets that after all he is only a statue.

1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 313 Those in whom space perception is still of the early, plastic form frequent among children, in whom the later ‘petrefacts’ have not yet been crystallized out..should be primary colour perceptors.

1997 Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 201 349 Petrifacts or trace and body fossils are formed if..suitable organisms encounter suitable substrates on which to leave tracks or in which to die.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	petrifact
释义	petrifactn. Brit. /ˈpɛtrᵻfakt/, U.S. /ˈpɛtrəˌfæk(t)/ Forms: 1800s– petrifact, 1900s– petrefact. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin petra , artefact n. Etymology: < classical Latin petra rock, stone (see petro- comb. form¹) + -fact (in artefact n.). Compare post-classical Latin petrefactum , German Petrefakt fossil (both late 18th cent. or earlier). Compare earlier petrifaction n. 2, petrification n. 2, petrifying n. 1. An object made of stone; (also) an object formed by petrifaction. Also: (figurative) something that has become hardened or fixed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > other types of statue Silenus?1543 round1634 polychrome1801 portrait statue1840 acroterion1842 magot1844 acrolith1847 tekoteko1848 petrifact1875 1875 Harper's Mag. July 241/1 Years ago the cave had been visited at times by an old itinerant dealer in petrifacts, who hunted there for fossil bears' teeth. 1911 M. Beerbohm And Even Now (1920) 39 He..does strive, by day and by night, poor petrefact, to rip off these fell and clownish integuments... He forgets that after all he is only a statue. 1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 313 Those in whom space perception is still of the early, plastic form frequent among children, in whom the later ‘petrefacts’ have not yet been crystallized out..should be primary colour perceptors. 1997 Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 201 349 Petrifacts or trace and body fossils are formed if..suitable organisms encounter suitable substrates on which to leave tracks or in which to die. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875
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