n. [ See Petrify. ]
a.
The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. pétrifique. ] Petrifying; petrifactive. [ 1913 Webster ]
Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To petrify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall (1646). [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. pétrification. See Petrify. ]
adj.
v. i.
Like Niobe we marble grow,
And petrify with grief. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]
And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to