Ossify

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

[…], nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the samе period of time.

Before long, the entire organization ossifies.

Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;

This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour.

Now, in turn, we apply a revolutionary critique that […] ossifies into a rhetoric to become "the monstrous Latin of a monstrous church."

[T]he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is.

The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.