Petrifaction

Petrifaction - Other Definitions

• (n.) The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.
  
  
• (n.) The state or condition of being petrified.
  
  
• (n.) That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation.
  
  
• (n.) Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.