ossify
v
(pt, pp -fied) [I, Tn esp passive 尤用於被動語態]
(fml 文)
1 (cause sth to) become hard like bone; change into bone (使某物)骨化; 變成骨.
2 (fml derog 文, 貶) (cause sth to) become rigid and unable to change (使某事物)僵化, 不能更動
Beliefs have ossified into rigid dogma. 信仰已僵化為不可更動的教條.