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Definition of Fossilise
1. Verb. Convert to a fossil. "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"
Generic synonyms: Convert
Specialized synonyms: Lapidify, Petrify
Derivative terms: Fossilisation, Fossil, Fossilization
2. Verb. Become mentally inflexible.
Generic synonyms: Age, Get On, Maturate, Mature, Senesce
Derivative terms: Fossilisation
Definition of Fossilise
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of fossilize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fossilise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossilise
Literary usage of Fossilise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Crossing Over: The Basics of Evolution : Workbook for Teachers by Edith Dempster (2006)
"Soft tissues like internal organs do not fossilise well, but bones, teeth, external
skeletons and woody tissues of plants do fossilise well. ..."
2. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"... about 90 BC, when fossilise is mentioned among the cities which suffered most
severely from the terrible vengeance of Home, being laid waste with fire ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1881)
"... it must be through MSS., during a period when, anterior to the invention of
printing, phonetic writing had not yet begun to fossilise into ideographic. ..."
4. Mediaeval England, 1066-1350 by Mary Bateson (1903)
"As age succeeds to age, the past, in its religion, its law, its life, may fossilise,
but the petrified matter becomes imperishable. ..."
5. Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart by Charles Lyell (1881)
"I rode alone to Glamis, to choose some plants (fossil) which Blackadder's wife
and daughter had collected, they having taken a fancy to fossilise. ..."
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