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Adjective
petrifactive (not comparable)
- Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
- Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction.
petrifactive changes
1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Unicorns Horn”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC, 3rd book, page 137:Hereof in ſubterraneous cavities, and under the earth there are many [objects resembling unicorns' horns] to be found in ſeverall parts of Germany; which are but the Lapideſcencies and petrifactive mutations of hard bodies; [...]
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