Associations to the word «Ossified»

Wiktionary

OSSIFIED, adjective. Inflexible, old-fashioned (of ideas or attitudes).
OSSIFIED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of ossify

Dictionary definition

OSSIFIED, adjective. Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn