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ossify \AH-suh-fy\, intransitive verb:
1. To change into bone; to become bony.
2. To become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern.
"Isn't it an honor, though? To be their President, I mean?" Tegan frowned.
The Doctor sighed. "Honor? If she had offered it to another member of the Council, perhaps it could be considered an honor."
"I don't understand. It isn't an honor that she offered the Presidency to you?"
"She didn't offer, Tegan, she commanded." He shrugged. "It's just another way to try to force me to conform to their way of thinking; to become as ossified as they themselves have become."
"Won't you be in trouble?"
"No more than usual." He grinned. "And that's the way I prefer it."