Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. “I’m embalmed. ” “Potted and splificated?” “Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.
A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified.