Associations to the word «Calcify»
Noun
Adjective
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
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.