1. See Petrifaction.
2. Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell.
PETRIFY
Pet"ri*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified; p. pr. & vb. n.
Petrifying.] Etym: [L. petra rock, Gr. -fy: cf. F. pétrifier. 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.
PETRIFY
Pet"ri*fy, 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.
PETRINE
Pe"trine, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.