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/pɑntˈɪfəkəl/ Listen

noun

Pontifical n.

A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

pl. The dress and ornaments of a pontiff. "Dressed in full pontificals."

adjective

Pontifical adj.

Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as, pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal.

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."

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"Pontifical" Quotes from Famous Books

... ears of thrones and senates the warning of Rome's ambition, the moral of Rome's downfall! It is but a poor recompense to their present unhonoured solitude, that their melancholy battlements are emblazed at intervals with the pontifical escutcheons. Those triple tiaras and cross keys, so perpetually recurring, do not half so much consecrate as they are themselves consecrated by the lonely bulwarks of this desolated city ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various

... usual, for there was war and rumour of war in its columns. Garibaldi had raised a force of volunteers and was in the neighbourhood of Arezzo, beginning to skirmish with the outlying posts of the pontifical army along the frontier. The old gentleman did not know, of course, that on that very day the Italian Government was issuing its proclamation against the great agitator, and possibly if he had been aware of the incident it would not have produced ...

— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford

... of medicine, philosophy, theology and law, the principal branch being theology. This university acquired considerable celebrity, but practically disappeared during the colony's decline, being revived by royal decree of May 26, 1747, which gave it the title of Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Domingo. The cession of the island to France and the wars which followed weakened the famous institution, which was definitely closed by the Haitians when they assumed control of the government. The Haitian occupation and the civil disorders of the first forty years of the ...

— Santo Domingo - A Country With A Future • Otto Schoenrich

... the year 1080. It was sung at the closing of the Council called by order of William the Conqueror. Gregory VII was Pope and Philip I King of France. To this day, in the Cathedral of Rouen it is customary to render this chant on all solemn Pontifical feasts. ...

— The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book • Various

... to take action against the whole Order merely because the Master and Brethren around him had "gravely sinned," and it was decided to hold a papal commission in Paris. The first sitting took place in November 1309, when the Grand Master and 231 Knights were summoned before the pontifical commissioners. "This enquiry," says Michelet, "was conducted slowly, with much consideration and gentleness (avec beaucoup de menagement et de douceur) by high ecclesiastical dignitaries, an archbishop, several bishops, etc."[154] ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

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