Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making sport; tending to excite derision.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Making sport; tending to excite derision.

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  • adjective obsolete Making sport; tending to excite derision.

Etymologies

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Latin ludificatorius.

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Examples

  • O! asinine propellers of Faber's No. 2; O! ludificatory lavishers of Arnold's night-tinted fluid; what the Hades else do you suppose my object could be?

    The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954

  • The farce has its tragedy, and what tragedy is free of the ludificatory?

    Man on the Box Harold MacGrath 1901

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  • In addition, ludificatory means deceptive (Oxford English Dictionary).

    July 27, 2011