[ピルトダウンじけん, pirutodaun jiken] (n) (obsc) (See ピルトダウン人) Piltdown hoax (1912 discovery of a fossilized ape-human missing-link skull, later revealed to be fraudulent) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fossilize \Fos"sil*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fossilized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Fossilizing}.] [Cf. F. fossiliser.]
1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize
bones or wood.
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2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
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Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head
Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. --Mrs.
Browning.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fossilized \Fos"sil*ized\, a.
Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or
opinions.
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A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. --Earle.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fossilized
adj 1: set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior,
habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an
ossified bureaucratic system" [syn: {fossilized},
{fossilised}, {ossified}]
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