petrificare

petrificare [CL petra+-ficare] , (intr.) to turn to stone or stone-like substance. quando aliquid ~at, hoc fit calore vel frigiditate Quaest. Salern. C2; relinquitur ‥ sanies, cujus humiditas consumitur, et grossum ipsius coagulatur, et quia viscosum ~atur Gilb. III 130v. 2.