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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.
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2. Of or pertaining to the building of bridges. [R.]
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Now had they brought the work by wondrous art
Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock
Over the vexed abyss. --Milton.
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Pontifical
\Pon*tif"ic*al\, n. [F.]
1. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a
pontiff. --South.
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2. pl. The dress and ornaments of a pontiff.
“Dressed in
full pontificals.” --Sir W. Scott.
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