pontifical

IPA: pɑntˈɪfʌkʌɫ

noun

  • A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

adjective

  • Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
  • Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal.
  • Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.
  • Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
  • Splendid; magnificent.
  • Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
  • (chiefly poetic) Of or relating to the building or forming of bridges.
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Examples of "pontifical" in Sentences

  • For, as I shall belaborate below, a normal man is a vertical man -- or what Schuon called pontifical man.
  • 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.
  • There are only three institutions with the title pontifical: (1) The Pontifical Seminary of Kandy, Ceylon; (2) The Pontifical Seminary of Scutari (Collegium
  • Fisichella is president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, one of a number of so-called pontifical academies which are formed by or under the direction of the Holy See.
  • 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
  • Many innovations on these rights have been made by special decrees or customs, and, according to the prevailing discipline, account must be taken of the so-called pontifical reservations, or the rights which the pope has reserved to himself, especially as regards the highest dignity of the chapter, and also of the legitimate privileges possessed by patrons in Spain,

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