0 the natural process in which dead things change to a substance like stone over a long period of time: --
They have undergone petrification.
There might the recluse have lived till his bones fell among the petrifaction, but he was at length expelled from its gloomy precincts on account of his contraband iniquities.
As a result, calcium carbonate from the surrounding soil had replaced the flesh leading to petrifaction.
The artist has layered 40 metre long walls of ashes behind glass, as archives of petrifaction.
This is also called petrifaction, as in petrified wood.
The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood becomes buried under sediment and is initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen which inhibits aerobic decomposition.
If the supremacy of the sign over the human body is signalled by the black flag of the last chapter, petrifaction is at its most sublime in the penultimate chapter.
Petrifaction and a horrible hairdo quickly suggest the medusa.
Petrifaction is shown to be intrinsic to art in general.
