0 If habits or ideas ossify, or if something ossifies them, they become fixed and unable to change: --
1 If body tissue ossifies, it becomes hard and changes into bone. --
It does nothing to increase the supply of new accommodation but it will serve to ossify the market.
If there is immobility a city will ossify and decline.
Obviously, aid cannot be ossified—either the level of aid or the recipients at any one time.
I wonder whether there may be an effect here of ossifying error.
No society can ossify in perpetuity its land settlement patterns.
It would ossify and fossilise the wages councils and make it much more difficult for them to break into the area of free collective bargaining.
Too many investment portfolios have become ossified by high rates of capital gains tax.
To prop up the arguments here, or at least to see where they might stand if they were ossified, several lines of evidence can be noted.
