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The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1870, George Long, s.n. "Seneca, L. Annaeus", page 781 in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, volume III. 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.
- 1992, Peter Russell, The Pound connection: in some poems, mainly uncollected or unpublished, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, Brodsky's recent pumpkinification as America's "laureate" might be considered as a typical example of officialdom's "laureate" criteria.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
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.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
apocoloquintose
— the act of turning into a pumpkin
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German:
Verkürbissung
— the act of turning into a pumpkin
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Ancient Greek:
ἀποκολοκύντωσις
(apokolokúntōsis)
— the act of turning into a pumpkin
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Italian:
apokolokyntosis
— the act of turning into a pumpkin
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Italian:
apocolocintesi
— the act of turning into a pumpkin
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Italian:
zucchificazione
— the act of turning into a pumpkin
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Latin:
apocolocyntosis
— the act of turning into a pumpkin
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Polish:
apokolokyntoza
— the act of turning into a pumpkin
