petrificとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

petrific (comparative more petrific, superlative most petrific)

1. (now まれに) Petrifying, turning into stone; petrifactive. [from 17th c.]
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry.

   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.2:

     “Sir!” cried Mr. Delvile, with a look meant to be nothing less than petrific.