Hypertext Webster Gateway: "petrifactive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Petrifactive \Pet`ri*fac"tive\, a.
1. Having the quality of converting organic matter into
stone; petrifying.
2. Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction.
The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies.
--Sir T.
Browne.
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