Definition & Meaning | English word LUDIBRIUM
LUDIBRIUM
Definitions of LUDIBRIUM
- (archaic, formal) A plaything or trivial game.
- (archaic, formal) A laughing stock.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using LUDIBRIUM in a Sentence
- The term "ludibrium" was used frequently by Johann Valentin Andreae (1587–1654) in phrases like "the ludibrium of the fictitious Rosicrucian Fraternity" when describing the Rosicrucian Order, most notably in his Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, published anonymously in 1616, of which Andreae subsequently claimed to be the author and which has been taken seriously, as virtually a third of the Rosicrucian Manifestos.
- In his autobiography he claimed that the Chymische Hochzeit ("Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz") was one of his works—as a "ludibrium", possibly meaning "lampoon".
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