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petrifaction

[pe-truh-fak-shuhn] / ˌpɛ trəˈfæk ʃən /




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For another video, Weitz dipped her own hand in porcelain slip and let it dry, creating a crackling petrifaction effect on her skin; her dusty, chalky-looking body then appeared a decaying sculpture itself.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2016

The petrifaction of religious language has happened over and over – Catholic Latin, Orthodox Slavonic.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2011

Most were philosophers, and inquired into the workings of time and memory, natural history, the properties of light, heat, and petrifaction.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Impressed with the form of some natural object, as,— Zoolithus, the petrifaction of an animal of the class Mammalia.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

In the north-east portion of the state, this species of stone, whose basis is clay, is found in a more matured state of petrifaction.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt




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