Pontifical

//pɒnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l//

Synonyms for "pontifical" (62 found)

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9 translations across 7 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • папски adj (of or pertaining to a pontiff)

Dutch

1 entries
  • pontificaal adj (of or pertaining to a pontiff)

Finnish

3 entries
  • mahtava adj (pompous, dignified or dogmatic)
  • mahtipontinen adj (pompous, dignified or dogmatic)
  • paavillinen adj (of or pertaining to a pontiff)

French

1 entries
  • pontifical adj (of or pertaining to a pontiff)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • főpapi adj (of or pertaining to a pontiff)

Italian

1 entries
  • pontificio adj (of or pertaining to a pontiff)

Manx

1 entries
  • ard-saggyrtagh adj (of or pertaining to a pontiff)

Sample sentences

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The two-month course began at the "Regina Apostolorum," one of Rome's prestigious pontifical universities. The course has been described as both "theoretical and practical" and is open to priests and theology students only. Teachers include exorcists and psychiatrists. One of the issues that will be addressed is how to tell the difference between someone who is possessed and someone who simply has psychological problems.

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

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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; […]

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William Durandus, bishop of Mende in the south of France, compiled a pontifical in three books. William never intended his work to be a universal pontifical, but its clarity of arrangement and quality of substance, along with […]

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