Associations to the word «Pontifical»
Noun
- Studying
- Communion
- Bulletin
- Minor
- Chancery
- Reparation
- Synod
- Xv
- Divinity
- Confessor
- Drafting
- Patriarch
- Foley
- Pune
- Propagation
- Bologna
- Doctrine
- Paolo
- Pantheon
- Repository
- Coronation
- Opus
- Pastor
- Ecuador
- Vita
- Alfonso
- Bangalore
- Martini
- Missionary
- Conception
- Chancellor
- Governorate
- John
- Italy
- Dayton
- Degree
- Thomas
- Martyr
- Armenian
- Century
- Secretary
- Procession
- Francis
- Koch
- Blessing
- Approval
- Believer
- Schism
- Interpretation
- President
- Bari
- Palazzo
- Luigi
- Altar
- Sandal
- Roma
- Santa
- Regis
- Marcos
- Javier
- St
- Va
- Uni
- Cathedral
- Mandate
- Alumnus
- Law
- Directory
- Earning
- Lecturer
- Pietro
Adjective
Wiktionary
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal.
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Of or relating to the building of bridges.
PONTIFICAL, noun. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.
Dictionary definition
PONTIFICAL, noun. The vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop).
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation".
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops.
PONTIFICAL, adjective. Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.