meaning of pontifical
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.
3. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.
4. The dress and ornaments of a pontiff.
5. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
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pontifical | pontificality | pontifically |
