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Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.

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  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • ANTIQUATION
    The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
  • FOSSILIZATION
    The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
  • CONFUSIVE
    Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
  • CONFUS
    Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
  • ANTIQUATED
    Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
  • FIXTURE
    Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
  • CONVERTIBLY
    In a convertible manner.
  • FOSSIL
    Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
  • FOSSILIST
    One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
  • FOSSILIZED
    Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
  • FIXING
    Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl.
  • FIX
    Fixed; solidified. Chaucer.
  • EARLET
    An earring. The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24
  • CONFUSABILITY
    Capability of being confused.
  • FIXURE
    Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak.
  • CONFUSEDNESS
    A state of confusion. Norris.
  • CONVERTIBLE
    1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
  • FIXEDLY
    In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
  • CONVERTEND
    Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • AFFIXION
    Affixture. T. Adams.
  • INCONVERTED
    Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
  • CORK FOSSIL
    A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
  • RECONVERTIBLE
    Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
  • UNCONVERTED
    1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
  • PHASE CONVERTER
    A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
  • INCONVERTIBLE
    Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
  • CONFIXURE
    Act of fastening.
  • PREFIX
    prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle

 

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