Definition of "ankylosed"

ankylosed

verb
1. simple past and past participle of ankylose
adjective
comparative more ankylosed, superlative most ankylosed
1. (of bones or joints) Stiffened or inflexible.
2. (figuratively, by extension) Stiff, cramped, rigid.
  Quotations
  The pipy arms, ending in bony claws were outthrust as if ankylosed in the posture of an eternal dreadful groping.
  August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust"
  it was a strange spot, this forest of dark petrifacts, this grove of ankylosed trees.
  1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 133