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- verb Present participle of
fossilise .
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These areas, as we have seen, are always shifting their position, so that the fossilising process, by means of which the commemoration of the particular state of the organic world, at any given time, is effected, may be said to move about, visiting and revisiting different tracts in succession.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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These areas, as we have seen, are always shifting their position, so that the fossilising process, by means of which the commemoration of the particular state of the organic world, at any given time, is effected, may be said to move about, visiting and revisiting different tracts in succession.
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This might only imply a personal dissatisfaction with the borough's representative, who of late had been very visibly fossilising; it would be difficult to explain a marked reaction in Hollingford against the tendencies of the country at large.
Our Friend the Charlatan George Gissing 1880
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Cutlery slowly fossilising, turning the colour of anchovies.
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Cutlery slowly fossilising, turning the colour of anchovies.
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Cutlery slowly fossilising, turning the colour of anchovies.
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Cutlery slowly fossilising, turning the colour of anchovies.
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Cutlery slowly fossilising, turning the colour of anchovies.
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Cutlery slowly fossilising, turning the colour of anchovies.
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Cutlery slowly fossilising, turning the colour of anchovies.
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