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. 

I like the idea to use a 'fossilised' form of the emphatic particle, rather than one that is in common use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions] Reference

The Taung skull - a fossilised skull - was found between.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The graves were flooded for centuries and the bones fossilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

The creature is fossilised, with the skin and bone turned to stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool] Reference

People out of the flow can become a bit fossilised culturally perhaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coconuts Of London] Reference

Some would say why bother with the fossilised remnant of an institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-08] Reference

The caged blades are fossilised, like silted anchors dredged from the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsaken] Reference

Pollen grains and indigenous crops have also been fossilised in the Valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For Daisy had discovered a fossilised mammoth bone up to two million years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-30] Reference

Do you have any idea, at all, of the true long term cost of fossilised fuel power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Straws in the Wind] Reference

Huge tendrils hung down over it from high above, the fossilised roots of long-dead trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

Zaphod, despite two hangovers, rescues Ford and Arthur, having discovered their fossilised towel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Panic]

"It's hard, it's crystallised, it's fossilised," says her 86-year-old great-grandson Morgan Ford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

Scottish Conservatives represent no-one but a fossilised remnant, an angel beating its wings in a vacuum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-12] Reference

In Japan, fossilised sharks 'teeth were said to be the pointed thumbnails of Tengu Man, a mythical mountain goblin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

One of our museums in Pretoria has some of the small rocks on which the evidence of the Age of the area was fossilised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech at the United Nations University] Reference

Some institutions are so fossilised that they simply cannot respond to change without failing to function all together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making a case for Libertarianism, Part 3] Reference

Giant rat that once roamed the earth - Times Online: The fossilised skull of a rat the size of a car has been unearthed.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Has a Cousin in Sumatra] Reference

Lyste was an old, old planet, probably gutted of easily mined minerals, fossilised hydrocarbons, and even natural radioactives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timegod's World]

He passed over the fossilised Viking shield wall, the arching shape of the ship's stem, the haunting form of the fallen warrior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

We would see an overwhelming number of fossils of one particular species, accompanied by various fossilised artefacts and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW: Michael Hanlon, Author of Eternity, Our Next Billion Years] Reference

Wales, and could supply ichthyolites by the ton, or a ship load of fossilised fish sufficient to supply the museums of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

Smith said the Burnetia skull was found almost by accident while they were excavating a large fossilised skeleton of a Dicynodon.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Palaeontologists use a particle accelerator to reveal for the first time the structure of 500-million-year-old fossilised embryos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science press releases] Reference

The fossilised skeleton of a rabbit-like creature that lived 55 million years ago has been found in Mongolia, Science magazine reports.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

The thought we read is related to the thought which rises in us, as the fossilised impress of a prehistoric plant is to a plant budding out in spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference

That he was by no means as fossilised as he appeared was quite evident from the distinctly - respectful manner in which von Brauchitsch addressed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Eagles Dare]

The book comes less than a year after the world's spotlight fell on a 3,5-million-year-old fossilised hominid skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We came on a curious geological formation, which we thought could be nothing but fossilised trees, but how a tree came to be in the middle of a lava rock was a puzzle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

"Among our heroes and heroines we should not just have footballers and cricketers," Mbeki said at a Johannesburg media conference announcing the fossilised skeleton find.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It lacks the Knightsbridge apartment's mod cons – in fact it resembles a giant fossilised turd – but, in heritage terms, it makes the Tower of London look like Poundbury.    From Wordnik.com.  [£140m for a flat? Perhaps the buyer would like to see my Kilburn des res] Reference

It had all been there fossilised in history, like the bones of the dinosaurs, waiting for somebody to treat it not as a curious and amusing footnote, but as a rock-hard fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Game]

A fossilised, battle-scarred skull belonging to a previously unknown species of primate has been unearthed that sheds light on the evolutionary origins of apes, including humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ape ancestors brought to life by fossil skull of 'Saadanius' primate] Reference