Verb (used with object) : Time has fossilized such methods.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : The plant fossilized in comparatively recent geologic time.    From Dictionary.com. 

Anyway the dunes are younger and would appear to be able to tell us about climate changes that may have occured in the area - this includes looking for 'fossilise' hirax poo but these are rare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snell-Pym » 2008 » October] Reference

Keeping it would fossilise the political process in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Britain seemed to fossilise into a paralysis of self-defeating normalcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [...corrupts absolutely] Reference

The earlier in strata you look the lifeforms are smaller and harder to fossilise by their internal construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random Nonsense - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

• Giving certainty of funding when long-term investment is needed but does not fossilise funding at the expense of innovation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

But intent doesn't fossilise, not even in bog bodies :- And as you say, the boundaries blur because human behaviour is rarely clear cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human sacrifice in Anglo-Saxon England: what rite might have been used?] Reference

Little minds soon come to terms with themselves and the world, and then fossilise; but the others flourish, and are always alive and in motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Controversy] Reference

As I have mentioned before – it took 20 million years to capture and fossilise the forests and micro-organisms of the Carboniferous Period - giving us our coal and oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaders TV Debate – Law & Order Summary SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

There is a problem identifying reproductively isolated species from fossil taxa because the biological properties that make one population isolated from another do not fossilise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laonastes/ Diatomys/ kha-nyou/ rat-squirrel - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

This doesn't mean endlessly harking back to the past or attempting to fossilise traditions or keep up childish things....it involves celebrating each passing year, noting it, remembering things as part of something alive and valuable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

The main point is, that we should not fossilise either our freedoms or our restraints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions and Comments] Reference

He had reached his zenith, I suppose: had begun to fossilise, as men do when they cease to grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions] Reference

But overly prescriptive rules that fossilise the internet in its current form could indeed hamper innovation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

ESRF to look at possible remnants of soft parts of the body that normally do not fossilise, such as brain tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Ardi, her hair and size and shape of the soft tissue is informed guesswork, soft tissue doesn't usually fossilise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Since the soft parts involved are unlikely to fossilise, we would not expect to find evidence of them in the rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

There is no respect now of Handel nor of Shakespeare; the works of Rembrandt and Bellini fossilise at the bottom of the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Habit] Reference

"We must preach or we will perish; we must evangelise or we shall fossilise; we must be a missionary force or we shall become a missionary field.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Addison's blog World Changers] Reference

The ash and mud that covered the creatures 'corpses prevented rapid decomposition, enabling soft body parts to fossilise rather than just the bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The contrapuntal formulas and prosaic melodic contours, to be used so magnificently by Handel, were never allowed to harden and fossilise in Purcell's music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purcell] Reference

So the flood was powerful enough to carve the grand canyon, kill the dinosaurs, bury and fossilise all the bones .. but left ancient egypt in tact ... awesome!.    From Wordnik.com.  [ZGeek - We put the "M" in stupid] Reference

Or she may fossilise in the form of her present Plutocracy, and realise that new feudalism of industry which was dreamt of by Saint-Simon, by Comte, and by Carlyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appearances Being Notes of Travel] Reference

Prof. Lee Berger pushed the investigation further by using the ESRF to look at possible remnants of soft parts of the body that normally do not fossilise, such as brain tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [D Mag - News] Reference

Prof. Lee Berger decided to push the investigation even further by using the X-rays at the ESRF to look at possible remnants of soft parts of the body that normally do not fossilise, such as brain tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

It has been my fate to see great educational funds fossilise into mere bricks and mortar, in the petrifying springs of architecture, with nothing left to work the institution they were intended to support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science & Education] Reference

'Fossil, I'; a quick-paced, harmony-packed tune that succinctly solicits society's inherent ability to fossilise certain people and times through art: "Open sky, open sky/Give me wind/'cross my face/Fossil, I, Fossil, I".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference

I wish people would realise that “soft” bodied critters just don’t fossilise that well.    From Wordnik.com.  [No more coffee for Mr Witt - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

“It has been my fate to see great educational funds fossilise into mere bricks and mortar in the petrifying springs of architecture, with nothing left to work them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Huxley] Reference

However this is still an explanation of why the ‘Cambrian explosion’ is an artifact rather than a real event - I mean we don’t really think that hard parts, per se, are intrinsically important other than they fossilise more easily?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"It has been my fate to see great educational funds fossilise into mere bricks and mortar in the petrifying springs of architecture, with nothing left to work them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference

Highland ecologies rarely fossilise.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Are apt to fossilise her girlish mirth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Leigh] Reference

The alternative to sustaining and rejuvenating rural communities is to fossilise them, in time forcing out the families and working people without whom farms can't be tended, shops and services kept running, village schools kept open. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest From www.aboutproperty.co.uk] Reference

Listing is not intended to fossilise. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference