Definition of "ossified" []

• Of ideas or attitudes, inflexible, old-fashioned. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of ossify. (verb)

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• "Analogous to the bony tissues are the so-called ossified (really, calcified) arteries."
• "Introducing the annual report today, Thompson said that setting "appropriate limits" for the BBC's online operation would not mean that services "ossified"."
• "“The existing seem has been kind of ossified,” he said."