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petrify : 英英辞書
Pet"rify
(), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Petrified (); p. pr. & vb. n.Petrifying ().] [L. petra rock, Gr. (akin to a stone) + -fy: cf. F. ptrifier. Cf. Parrot, Petrel, Pier.]
1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.
Kirwan.
2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott.
And petrify a genius to a dunce.
Pope.
The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing.
De Quincey.
A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.
G. Eliot.

Pet"rify
v. i.
1. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
2. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
Like Niobe we marble grow,
And petrify with grief.
Dryden.



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