1849 W. Smith III. 781/2 Pumpkinification , or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins.

1856 C. Merivale V. l. 602 (note) Seneca wrote a satire on the deification of Claudius to which he gave the name of Apocolocyntosis (or pumpkinification ).

1904 15 Oct. 559/1 The writer..has..given us, not an apotheosis, but a pumpkinification of the Emperor William II.

1943 37 104 As well might Milton have called Paradise Lost ‘The Pumpkinification of Satan’.

1979 (Univ. Cape Town) Sept. 51 The effect is one of pumpkinification —it is as though we are witnessing Cinderella's coach revert to its vegetable state.