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fossilised

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Adj.1.fossilised - set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
fossilized, ossified
inflexible - incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose"


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"He's like this," said Rachel, lighting on a fossilised fish in a basin, and displaying it.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
In other cases we have the plainest evidence in great fossilised trees, still standing upright as they grew, of many long intervals of time and changes of level during the process of deposition, which would never even have been suspected, had not the trees chanced to have been preserved: thus, Messrs.
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