See fossilization, fossilize.

noun. Alternative spelling of fossilization.

noun. the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone

noun. becoming inflexible or out of date

"The former hypothesis has some justification, for Chinese prose was sufficiently young to have escaped, as yet, on the whole, the later processes of "fossilisation", by being divorced from the actual spoken language. 3"

passage  transition  

maintainance  regroup  reinvention  verdancy  

fossilization