0 present participle of ossify
1 If habits or ideas ossify, or if something ossifies them, they become fixed and unable to change:
2 If body tissue ossifies, it becomes hard and changes into bone.
I wonder whether there may be an effect here of ossifying error.
I do not think it will have an ossifying effect on local authorities themselves.
It might have a sort of ossifying effect.
The whole structure is an ossified and ossifying one.
If this is so, surely the clause is immediately at fault in inhibiting such transfers and ossifying the private forestry industry.
There is no advantage in ossifying the timetable by specifying it in advance and giving a franchise operator no freedom or flexibility to grow the market and respond to it.
We must not consider ossifying the economy.
It can be confused with the peripheral ossifying fibroma.
