Definition of Fossilising

1. Verb. (present participle of fossilise) ¹

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Definition of Fossilising

1. fossilise [v] - See also: fossilise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossilising

fossilate
fossilated
fossilates
fossilating
fossilhood
fossiliferous
fossilification
fossilified
fossilifies
fossilify
fossilifying
fossilisation
fossilise
fossilised
fossilises
fossilising (current term)
fossilism
fossilist
fossilists
fossility
fossilizable
fossilization
fossilizations
fossilize
fossilized
fossilizes
fossilizing
fossilogy
fossilology
fossils

Literary usage of Fossilising

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"His blank verse runs easily, and owes something to a respectful study of Shakespeare ; but we recognise that it is in the process of fossilising into the ..."

2. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Charles Lyell, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst, Joseph Lister, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis (1910)
"These areas, as we have seen, are always shifting their position, so that the fossilising process, by means of which the commemoration of the particular ..."

3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... was the salvation of the time, keeping Comedy at least free from the fossilising influences of the false Imitation. Although the unwary might reasonably ..."

4. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst (1910)
"These areas, as we have seen, are always shifting their position, so that the fossilising process, by means of which the commemoration of the particular ..."

5. Economic Development of Modern Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1917)
"From the fifteenth century onwards there was complaint of the fossilising tendencies of the gild, but efforts both of the shadowy Imperial power and of the ..."

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