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Pontifical

//pɒnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a pontiff.; Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal.
  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to a pontiff.; Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.
  3. 3
    Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
  4. 4
    Splendid; magnificent.
  5. 5
    Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
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  1. 6
    Of or relating to the building or forming of bridges. poetic

    "Now had they brought the work by wondrous art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock / Over the vexed abyss."

Adjective
  1. 1
    puffed up with vanity wordnet
  2. 2
    denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops wordnet
  3. 3
    proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

    "Both ordines are related to an ordo in a pontifical in Reims, the Ordo of 1200 (Ordo XIX). The latter was to be consulted again and again, and its formulas were to have a marked effect upon the French ceremony; […]"

  2. 2
    the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pontificālis.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin pontificālis.

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