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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ossify /ˈɒsɪfʌɪ/

▶verb (ossifies, ossifying, ossified)

1 turn into bone or bony tissue.

2 (often as adj. ossified) cease developing; become inflexible.

– derivatives
ossification noun.

– origin C18 (earlier (C17) as ossification): from Fr. ossifier, from L. os, oss- ‘bone’.

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