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pontifical |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. Of or pertaining to the building of bridges. [R.] Now had they brought the work by wondrous art Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock Over the vexed abyss. --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pontifical \Pon*tif"ic*al\, n. [F.] 1. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff. --South. 2. pl The dress and ornaments of a pontiff. ``Dressed in full pontificals.'' --Sir W. Scott. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pontifical adj : 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}]
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