Definition of "calcifying" []

• Present participle of calcify. (verb)

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• "For Reynolds, the past is calcifying contemporary music."
• "Jazz composer and visionary Sun Ra: is the past 'calcifying contemporary music'?"
• "If you're one of those who spends whatever extra income you might have in the world's luxury restaurants, you will regard him as the gastro-wizard-in-chief, the man who at El Bulli, his restaurant north of Barcelona, moved haute gastronomy on from the calcifying tropes of nouvelle cuisine to a brave new modernist tomorrow; who ushered in the age of foams and hot jellies, spherified olives and desserts cooked in liquid nitrogen."