PET'RIFY, v.t. [L. petra; Gr. a stone or rock, and facio, to make.]
1. To convert to stone or stony substance; as an animal or vegetable substance.
North of Quito,there is a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.
2. To make callous or obdurate; as, to petrify the heart.
And petrify a genius to a dunce.
3. To fix; as, to petrify one with astonishment.
PET'RIFY, v.i. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as animal or vegetable substances by means of calcarious or other depositions in their cavities.
