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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