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pontifical

pɒn'tifikl5 senses · 188 ms
Level C2GRE
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adj/pɒnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l//pɑnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l/
  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.

  6. 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.
noun/pɒnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l//pɑnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l/
  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; […]
    • 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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