Associations to the word «Calcify»

Wiktionary

CALCIFY, verb. (transitive) To make something hard and stony by impregnating with calcium salts.
CALCIFY, verb. (intransitive) To become hard and stony by impregnation with calcium salts.

Dictionary definition

CALCIFY, verb. Become impregnated with calcium salts.
CALCIFY, verb. Become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify".
CALCIFY, verb. Turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over the centuries".
CALCIFY, verb. Convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope