Found 2 items, similar to Pontifical.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pontifical pontifical adj 1: proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; “papal dispensation” [syn: papal, apostolic, apostolical] 2: denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops [syn: episcopal] 3: puffed up with vanity; “a grandiloquent and boastful manner”; “overblown oratory”; “a pompous speech”; “pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey”- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pontifical Pontifical \Pon*tif"ic*al\, a. [L. pontificalis: cf. F. pontifical. See Pontiff.] 1. Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as, pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the building of bridges. [R.] [1913 Webster] Now had they brought the work by wondrous art Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock Over the vexed abyss. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Pontifical \Pon*tif"ic*al\, n. [F.] 1. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. The dress and ornaments of a pontiff. “Dressed in full pontificals.” --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]