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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

pétrifique

Petrifying; petrifactive.

Death with his mace

petrific

, cold and dry.

Milton.

Adj.

Having power to convert into stone.

The cold, dry, petrific mace of a false and unfeeling philosophy.

petrific ‎(comparative more petrific, superlative most petrific)

petrifying; petrifactive
Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. — Milton.