- ossify (v.)
[ossify 词源字典]
- 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.[ossify etymology, ossify origin, 英语词源]