petrifactive
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petrifactive (not comparable)
- Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
- Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction.
- petrifactive changes
- 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Unicorns Horn”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 137:
- Hereof in ſubterraneous cavities, and under the earth there are many [objects resembling unicorns' horns] to be found in ſeverall parts of Germany; which are but the Lapideſcencies and petrifactive mutations of hard bodies; [...]
References edit
- “petrifactive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.