Definition of "calcify" []

• To make or become stony or chalky by deposition of calcium salts. (verb-transitive)
• To make or become inflexible and unchanging. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "My plan is to look for the signs that I'm starting to calcify."
• "In a recent experiment in the Mediterranean, reported in Nature Climate Change, corals and mollusks were transplanted to lower pH sites, where they proved "able to calcify and grow at even faster than normal rates when exposed to the high carbon-dioxide levels projected for the next 300 years.""
• "The dramatist's goal was to preempt any tendency the festival might have to calcify into a symposium."