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Fossilized   Listen
adjective
Fossilized  adj.  Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. "A fossilized sample of confused provincialism."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fossilized" Quotes from Famous Books



... right,—when there was no use in disputing the fact any longer. By and by geology began turning up fossils that told extraordinary stories about the duration of life upon our planet. What subterfuges were not used to get rid of their evidence! Think of a man seeing the fossilized skeleton of an animal split out of a quarry, his teeth worn down by mastication, and the remains of food still visible in his interior, and, in order to get rid of a piece of evidence contrary to the traditions he holds to, seriously maintaining that this ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... mighty forms of the giant reptiles—the monsters of land and water. Amidst the dense vegetation of that pre-historic age, surrounded by the most favorable conditions, these mighty creatures flourished and lived, their fossilized skeleton forms evidencing to us how far their descendants have fallen, owing to less favorable conditions, and the development of other life-forms more in harmony with their ...
— A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga • Yogi Ramacharaka

... "It is the same, more or less, with all European countries, but the Saxon temperament, with its mixture of philosophy and philistinism, more than any other, gravitates towards the life mechanical. Existence here has become fossilized. We wear a mask upon our faces; we carry a gauge for our emotions. Lovell is going where the one great force of primitive life remains. He is going to see war. He is going to breathe an atmosphere hot with naked passion; he is going to rub shoulders with men who walk hand in hand with death. That's ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... the river bank now showed fossilized sea shells in their strata; chains of hills, too, became visible, and one of the natives, [This old native, after the settlement of the country, was shot in cold blood by one of the South Australian police.] an old man who had taken a strange fancy to ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc



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