About The Word Pontifical
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Pontifical
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What's The Definition Of Pontifical?
[adj] puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pontifical: grandiloquent | overblown | pompous | portentous | pretentious Related Terms | Find terms related to Pontifical: apostolic | arrogant | bigoted | bloated | bombastic | conceited | doctrinaire | doctrinarian | dogmatic | dogmatizing | flatulent | formal | gassy | grandiloquent | important | inflated | magisterial | opinionated | opinionative | opinioned | oracular | papal | papish | papist | papistic | peremptory | pompous | popish | positive | positivistic | pronunciative | puffy | self-important | self-opinionated | self-opinioned | solemn | stilted | stuffy | swollen | tumid | turgid See Also | Pontifical In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\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. |
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