ossified

Definition of Ossified in English :

set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs

Example Sentences:
'obsolete fossilized ways'
'an ossified bureaucratic system'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ossified

adjective

1.

converted into bone

2.

having become set and inflexible

3. Irish slang

intoxicated; drunk

v. os·si·fied, os·si·fy·ing, os·si·fies

v.intr.

1. To change into bone; become bony.

2. To become set in a rigidly conventional pattern: "The central ideas of liberalism have ossified" (Jeffrey Hart).

v.tr.

1. To convert (a membrane or cartilage, for example) into bone.

2. To mold into a rigidly conventional pattern.