PETRIFY
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Pet"ri*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Petrifying (?).] [L. petra rock, Gr. &unr_; (akin to &unr_; a stone) + -fy: cf. F. pétrifier. Cf. Parrot, Petrel, Pier.] 1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
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A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.
Kirwan.
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2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. “Petrifying accuracy.” Sir W. Scott.
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And petrify a genius to a dunce.
Pope.
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The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing.
De Quincey.
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A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.
G. Eliot.
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Pet"ri*fy, v. i. 1. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
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2. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
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Like Niobe we marble grow,
And petrify with grief.
Dryden.
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