Pontifical \Pon*tif"ic*al\, n. [F.]
1. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a
pontiff. --South.
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2. pl. The dress and ornaments of a pontiff. "Dressed in full
pontificals." --Sir W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pontifical \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.
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2. Of or pertaining to the building of bridges. [R.]
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Now had they brought the work by wondrous art
Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock
Over the vexed abyss. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pontifical
adj 1: proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the
papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles;
"papal dispensation" [syn: papal, apostolic, apostolical]
2: denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
[syn: episcopal]
3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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