Definition of "calcified" []

• Hardened from the deposit of calcium salts. (adjective)
• That which is to become unchanging or inflexible. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of calcify. (verb)

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• "The days of soaking hominy kernels - cacahuazintle - in calcified water and peeling each one individually are fading fast, thanks to the pre-cleaned hominy that comes in packages in the refrigerated food section of even small neighborhood supermarkets."
• "So a highly regressive taxation structure is meant to ameliorate this kind of calcified class stratification."
• "Phillips will discuss how the depreciated dollar coupled with the dangerous attitudes of a "calcified" political system and the flawed products of wayward mega-finance have put our very global future at risk."