pontifical
Adjective
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Adjective
pontifical
- Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
- Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
- Splendid; magnificent.
- Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
Of or relating to the building of bridges. - 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Now had they brought the work by wondrous art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock / Over the vexed abyss.
- French: pontifical
pontifical (plural pontificals)
- A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.
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