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Did you know?
What is the difference between ossify and calcify?
Medically speaking, ossify refers to the process by which bone forms, or by which tissue (usually cartilage) changes into bone. Ossification is a natural process that starts in utero and which comprises several different steps—one of which is the deposit of calcium salts, also known as calcification. Calcify, however, only refers to the deposit of calcium salts in soft tissue and is not synonymous with ossify. Ossification creates bone tissue, which is more than simply a deposit of calcium salts.
Both ossify and calcify have gained more general uses as well. Calcify refers to hardening, to becoming inflexible and unable to change:
What were once upstart revisionist currents calcified into self-regarding academic sub-specialties, sponsoring plenty of analysis but little fundamental debate.
— Sean Wilentz, The New Republic, 2 July 2001
Ossify refers to becoming inflexible, conventional, and resistant to change:
For these writers, the ossified ideologies of the world, imbedded in the communal imagination, block vision, and as artists they respond not by criticism from without but by confrontation from within.
—Robert Coover, The New York Times Book Review, 18 Mar. 1984
While ossify generally has a slightly more disparaging connotation to it than calcify does in general uses, our evidence shows that the two words are beginning to merge semantically.
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web But a relentless pandemic, the influx of migrants at the southern border and the president’s stalled legislative agenda have served to further calcify the public’s negative perceptions. 
Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022 Online, after all, is where strangers assume the worst of one another, where algorithms help calcify political polarization, and where nuance has been stripped from human interaction. Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2022 For director Joshua Zeman, who befriended Terry before his death, The Sons of Sam is a cautionary tale about the dangers of true-crime obsession — and a look at how the police and media calcify certain mythologies as fact. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021 After three seasons of watching these dynamics calcify, the audience understands all this perfectly well. Caroline Framke, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2020 The social binary of introverts and extroverts has calcified over the last century. Ann Friedman, New York Times, 14 May 2020 As other sectors of the economy wither, mid- and low-wage workers could get pushed out of the housing market, calcifying the economic divide, O’Mara observed. Chase Difeliciantonio, SFChronicle.com, 6 Apr. 2020 By mixing sand and gelatin and adding cyanobacteria, the researchers induce an action where the bacteria process the gelatin and calcify it. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2020 But McCown was playing only because the starter, Carson Wentz, removed himself from the game after absorbing a helmet-to-helmet hit, a real-time decision between his health and calcified notions about postseason glory. Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020 See More
Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022 Online, after all, is where strangers assume the worst of one another, where algorithms help calcify political polarization, and where nuance has been stripped from human interaction. Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2022 For director Joshua Zeman, who befriended Terry before his death, The Sons of Sam is a cautionary tale about the dangers of true-crime obsession — and a look at how the police and media calcify certain mythologies as fact. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021 After three seasons of watching these dynamics calcify, the audience understands all this perfectly well. Caroline Framke, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2020 The social binary of introverts and extroverts has calcified over the last century. Ann Friedman, New York Times, 14 May 2020 As other sectors of the economy wither, mid- and low-wage workers could get pushed out of the housing market, calcifying the economic divide, O’Mara observed. Chase Difeliciantonio, SFChronicle.com, 6 Apr. 2020 By mixing sand and gelatin and adding cyanobacteria, the researchers induce an action where the bacteria process the gelatin and calcify it. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2020 But McCown was playing only because the starter, Carson Wentz, removed himself from the game after absorbing a helmet-to-helmet hit, a real-time decision between his health and calcified notions about postseason glory. Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1836, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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