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/pəntˈɪfɪkəl/
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[ US /pɑnˈtɪfəkəɫ/ ]
[ US /pɑnˈtɪfəkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
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proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
papal dispensation -
puffed up with vanity
overblown oratory
a pompous speech
pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey
a grandiloquent and boastful manner
NOUN
- the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
How To Use pontifical In A Sentence
- There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- This must be demonstrated not in pontifical phrases in front of the Empire Club but in actions that are producing the results we talk about. The Road to ReformOntario Style
- Accordingly, next morning he appeared with his clerk, and, in his pontificals, read several prayers in the established form, and then read the collect for the seventh day of September, which was the thirty-fifth psalm. The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776
- The "Liber Pontificalis" under the name Silvester (ed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- July 1, 2009, Feast of the Precious Blood of Our Lord, -- In the ICRSP seminary in Gricigliano: Solemn Pontifical Mass by Bishop John Basil Meeking, with ordinations to the subdiaconate and diaconate. Archive 2009-06-01
- Most importantly, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Science positioned itself as a leading sponsor on scientific inquiry into extraterrestrial life.
- Three years previously (1271) Charles of Anjou had drawn together the remnants of the army of his dead brother, had confiscated to his own use the goods of the crusading knights whose vessels had been wrecked on the coast of Sicily, and called the pontifical court to On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
- The pontificate of Sergius III was remarkable for the rise of what papal historians call a "pornocracy," or rule of the harlots, a reversal of the natural order as they saw it, according to Liber pontificalis and a later chronicler who was also biased against Sergius III. LT Saloon
- Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of CDW, Celebrates Solemn Pontifical Usus Antiquior Mass in Lateran Today by Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of CDW, Celebrates Solemn Pontifical Usus Antiquior Mass in Lateran Today
- He's called the prefect of the pontifical household. CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2005
