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Definition of Fossilising
1. fossilise [v] - See also: fossilise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossilising
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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