1713, "to turn into bone," a back-formation from ossification, or else modeled on French ossifier (18c.) and formed from Latin os (genitive ossis) "bone" (see osseous) + -fy. Figurative sense is from 1858. Related: Ossified; ossifying.
例文
1. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.
人々は配給制を実行すると農業が活力を失うと考えている。
2.It is easy for the mind to ossify .
頭は硬直しやすい.
3.British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930 s drew to their close.イギリス社会は1930年代末に保守的で自閉的になった。
4.This disease will make her tendons ossify and her body paralyzed into a statue.