Pumpkinification

Origin

A calque of the Greek Ἀποκολοκύντωσις via the Latin Apocolocyntosis or Apokolokyntosis. From the title of the work Apocolocyntosis, a satire on the deification of Claudius.

Full definition of pumpkinification

Noun

1. The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.
• 1989, Robert Atwan, Our TimesChristianity, 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.
• 1992, Peter Russell, The Pound connection: in some poems, mainly uncollected or unpublished, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg,Brodsky's recent pumpkinification as America's "laureate" might be considered as a typical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.