fossilisation

How To Use fossilisation In A Sentence

• B.C. 117) is already indicative of the "fossilization" of Chinese writing, Huan K'uan at least in his liberal use of the binome retained touch with the spoken language. Discourses On Salt and Iron
• 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. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
• —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. II. Uniformity Of Change
• Cyrus, please look up the subject 'fossilization'. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• The probability of fossilization is investigated by taphonomists and geologists, who have concluded that it usually is very low.
• 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. Chapter 57. Public Scapegoats. § 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
• It was not developed to ‘get around the data’, it was developed to apply what we knew about genetics to what we should then expect in terms of fossilization.
• After all, there have been many catastrophes that destroy evidence - fossilization is a rare event because animal flesh and bones decay quickly.
• But really, the climate issue is just a way of trying to grapple with this fundamental uneven marketplace; the incorporation of the "cost of carbon" (because we have used the "fear" lever in the spectrum of fear and greed that the marketplace right now recognizes as the only two drivers for economic activity) is a way of monetizing fossilization in that extracted petroleum, coal, hydrocarbon feedstock. Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption"
• PIE *septm̥ is grammatically unanalysable in PIE and retains fossilization of Proto-Semitic morphology i.e. the root *sab`-, the feminine *-t- and mimation leading any rational person to the simplest conclusion that Semitic contacts in Pre-IE must have existed. Enticed by a drunken thought