Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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},
{pontifical}]
2: denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
[syn: {episcopal}, {pontifical}]
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}, {pontifical},
{portentous}]
n 1: the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a
bishop)
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