Now rare. [ad. L. lūdificātiōn-em, f. lūdificāre: see LUDIFY v.] A deception or mocking.
1623. Cockeram, Ludification, a beguiling.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., IX. Comm. 612. More gentle and of less Malice were those ludifications and deceptions of Zedechias the Jew.
1674. Josselyn, Voy. New Eng., 181. All [are] like Æthiopians white in the Teeth, only full of ludification and injurious dealing.
a. 1683. Sidney, Disc. Govt., iii. § 18 (1704), 308. Such ludifications of the most sacred things.
1838. G. S. Faber, Inquiry, 198. In order to see whether this ludification be not properly of demons and not of men.
