Pontifical : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Pontifical	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Pontifical
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pontifical adj proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation" Synonym(s): papal, apostolic, apostolical, pontifical denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops Synonym(s): episcopal, pontifical puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek Synonym(s): grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous n the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pontifical \Pontif"ical\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pontifical \Pontif"ical\, n. [F.] 1. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff. --South. 2. pl. The dress and ornaments of a pontiff. [bd]Dressed in full pontificals.[b8] --Sir W. Scott.