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Fossilized   /fˈɑsəlˌaɪzd/   Listen
Fossilized

adjective
1.
Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs.  Synonyms: fossilised, ossified.  "An ossified bureaucratic system"





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"Fossilized" Quotes from Famous Books



... his conversion to Evangelicism which gave him his inspiration and his themes. 'The Task' has been as justly called the poem of Methodism as the 'Paradise Lost' has been called the epic of Puritanism. In it we are presented with a number of pictures of the utterly fossilized condition of the clergy of the day in the Established Church (see especially book II., vv. 326-832, in which he satirizes the clergy and ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson


Words linked to "Fossilized" :   inflexible


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