0 (of habits or ideas) fixed and unable to change:
The institutions of government have become more ossified and inflexible.
He tried to push liberalizing policies through an ossified bureaucracy.
1 (of body tissue) having become hard and changed into bone:
The whole system has become ossified and unresponsive.
Fight the tendency to become ossified in your musical tastes.
The government must escape its ossified past.
The fontanelle is a membrane-covered space between cranial bodies in the fetus that later becomes ossified.
The car was completely covered in ossified bird droppings.
Thousands of fossilized dinosaur footprints have survived and become preserved in ossified rock.
