Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fossilized"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fossilize \Fos"sil*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fossilized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Fossilizing}.] [Cf. F. fossiliser.]
1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize
bones or wood.
2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to
fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs.
Browning.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fossilized \Fos"sil*ized\, a.
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or
opinions.
A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. --Earle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fossilized
adj : set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits,
or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified
bureaucratic system" [syn: {fossilised}, {ossified}]
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