n. The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
n. The process of becoming fixed, unchanging, and out of date.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act or process of fossilizing, or converting animal or vegetable substances into fossils or petrifactions; the state of being fossilized Also spelled fossilisation.
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n. the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone
n. becoming inflexible or out of date
Word Usage
"It might be called the fossilization of religious ideas."