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pumpkinification

pumpkinification noun: the act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.

Noun

pumpkinification (uncountable)

  1. The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.
    • Apocolocyntosis, is a satire against the emperor Claudius. The word is a play on the term Apotheosis or deification, and is equivalent in meaning to Pumpkinification, or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins.1870, George Long, s.n. "Seneca, L. Annaeus", page 781 in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, volume III.
    • Christianity, for example, admits females only as third-ranking immortals ("saints"), and many of its third-ranking gods, prior to their pumpkinification, were themselves vicious misogynists.1989, Robert Atwan, Our Times

Antonyms of pumpkinification

Origin of pumpkinification

From pumpkin + -ification: a calque of the Ancient Greek ἀποκολοκύντωσις (apokolokúntōsis) via the Latin apocolocyntosis. From the title of the work Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, a satire on the deification of Claudius.

Questions about pumpkinification

What does pumpkinification mean?
Pumpkinification means the act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.
What part of speech is pumpkinification?
Pumpkinification is a noun.

Words near pumpkinification in the dictionary

  1. pumpkingill
  2. pumpkingills
  3. pumpkings
  4. pumpkinhead
  5. pumpkinheads
  6. pumpkinification
  7. pumpkinish
  8. pumpkinity
  9. pumpkinless
  10. pumpkinlike
  11. pumpkinrita

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