v. [f. FOSSIL sb. + -ATE3.] trans. or intr. To make or become fossil. Hence Fossilated ppl. a. Also Fossilation, the action of the vb.: = FOSSILIZATION.
1819. G. S. Faber, Dispensations (1823), I. 143 Through these mighty changes, we are now dwelling upon the organic remains or the fossilated ruins of the productions of the third and fifth and sixth demiurgic periods: and wonderful is the mercy and goodness displayed in this gradual forming of our habitations.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., V. June, 553/1. The original antediluvian elephant, the mammoth, the megalonis, the megathurium, and a gigantic hyæna, all now known to us only by the fossilated remains of their skeletons.
1886. A. Winchell, Walks & Talks Geol. Field, 128. There are two suggestions in reference to the way in which iron-ore particles have been accumulated—first, fossilization of ancient iron-bogs; second, segregation.
