fossilized
Speech parts
1. fossilized - Adjective
2. fossilized - Verb
4. fossilized - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Fossilize
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions.
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
A religion with an ever-growing line of enlightened masters, such as exists in the dharma traditions, is less likely to become fossilized into institutional dogma and therefore more difficult to control.
I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.
obsolete fossilized ways
an ossified bureaucratic system
A 2010 study on mantas around Japan confirmed the morphological and genetic differences between M. birostris and M. alfredi. citation Fossil record While some small teeth have been found, few fossilized skeletons of manta rays have been discovered.