The former hypothesis has some justification, for Chinese prose was sufficiently young to have escaped, as yet, on the whole, the later processes of "fossilisation", by being divorced from the actual spoken language. 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discourses On Salt and Iron] Reference

Witness her attacks on the saintly Vincent Gray – “brain fossilisation” etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit] Reference

Studies of fossilisation now known as stabilisation suggested that learners who are not encouraged to, or even discouraged from, ‘adding grammar’ are stuck in the pre-syntactic, lexical phase.    From Wordnik.com.  [L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

Studies of fossilisation (now known as stabilisation) suggested that learners who are not encouraged to, or even discouraged from, ‘adding grammar’ are stuck in the pre-syntactic, lexical phase.    From Wordnik.com.  [L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

Not the kind of oozing rot one might find in the depths of some leafy jungle or in a fetid swamp but rather a peculiar kind of desiccation that bordered on fossilisation as if all moisture had been sucked from the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [beneath an opal moon]

To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

I'm at a loss as to how dinosaur track fossilisation is relevent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

The bones were articulated and had survived fossilisation without much distortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

"'The Making of Species' will do much to arrest the fossilisation of biological science in England.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference

Couldn't a natural process have been emiting carbon into the atmosphere while plant life and its fossilisation was taking it out?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

He was thinking that there was even more of an official fossilisation of Sir Rupert's earlier nature than Sir Rupert himself had suspected or described.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dictator] Reference

Researchers are testing methods designed to match chemical signatures of naturally occurring elements that seep into bones during fossilisation with surrounding soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [News24 Top Stories] Reference

The conditions favourable to the fossilisation of any group of animals occur comparatively rarely, and only in very limited areas; while the conditions essential for their permanent preservation in the rocks, amid all the destruction caused by denudation or metamorphism, are still more exceptional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

—To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Uniformity Of Change] Reference

What we now know to be the results of the chemical changes which take place in the course of fossilisation, by which mineral is substituted for organic substance, might, in the absence of such knowledge, be fairly interpreted as the expression of a process of development in the opposite direction -- from the mineral to the organic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology] Reference

Not only does this process of imbedding and fossilisation occur with marine and other aquatic animals and plants, but it affects those land animals and plants which are drifted away to sea, or become buried in bogs or morasses; and the animals which have been trodden down by their fellows and crushed in the mud at the river's bank, as the herd have come to drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference

This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism-the Rome of Asia-is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism—the Rome of Asia—is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 57. Public Scapegoats. § 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle] Reference

The Conversational Framework - Challenging a learning design TryOnceRefineOnce pattern Lack of immediate feedback How does your pattern of learning activities motivate students to: leads to fossilisation of errors; immediate feedback can hinder 1. access explanations and presentations of the theory, ideas or concepts? effective learning 2. ask questions about theory, etc, by providing the opportunity for answers from the teacher, or their peers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Then again, her comments about the European Union are not exactly useful either: In June, in London, I set out comprehensively our approach to the European Union, pointing out the opportunity, with the Constitution becalmed, for a British government to set out a positive agenda of a different kind, incorporating genuine completion of a single market and the creation of an outward looking Europe characterised by freedom and flexibility rather than ever-closer political integration characterised by bureaucracy and fossilisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [That other reshuffle] Reference

Sure, it’s a discrete record, because fossilisation is a discrete event, but there are some pretty impressive transitional series out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sad state of Intelligent Design: Or why it shuns 'peer review' - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion] Reference

Regarding the point about fossilisation, when I raised this objection, I’d been influenced by cognitivist scholars like Peter Skehan, who proposed a three stage progression in language acquisition: from a lexical stage to a syntactical stage, and then relexicalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT] Reference