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Synonyms for pontifical


Grammar : Adj
Spell : pon-tif-i-kuh l
Phonetic Transcription : pɒnˈtɪf ɪ kəl



Définition of pontifical

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Middle French pontifical and directly from Latin pontificalis "of or pertaining to the high priest," from pontifex (see pontifex). Hence pontificalia "trappings of a bishop."
  • adj pertaining to pope
Example sentences :
  • There was much of the Pontifical in me, for I was a rapt radical.
  • Extract from : « An Anarchist Woman » by Hutchins Hapgood
  • I offer a friend a bottle of '44 claret, fit for a pontifical supper.
  • Extract from : « Roundabout Papers » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Claude assumed the majestic and pontifical attitude of a Samuel.
  • Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
  • Everything about him became, as it were, pontifical, almost sacramental.
  • Extract from : « Obiter Dicta » by Augustine Birrell
  • But a railway the subjects of the Pontifical Government cannot have.
  • Extract from : « Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber » by James Aitken Wylie
  • I am writing treatises on augural, pontifical, and civil law.
  • Extract from : « Treatises on Friendship and Old Age » by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Before him are borne the triple crown and other Pontifical ornaments.
  • Extract from : « The Greville Memoirs » by Charles C. F. Greville
  • He felt that he could not argue with the pontifical zouave of bygone days.
  • Extract from : « Cosmopolis, Complete » by Paul Bourget
  • Tristan began to note the evidences of life in the Pontifical City.
  • Extract from : « Under the Witches' Moon » by Nathan Gallizier
  • Not all the troops in the Pontifical states could have taken me.
  • Extract from : « Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II » by Various

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