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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "pontifical" in a sentence

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    pontifical


    1. Unlike Aureliano José who tried to drown that image in the bloody bog of war, he tried to keep it alive in the sink of concupiscence while he entertained his mother with the endless fable of his pontifical vocation


    2. "Under the patriarchal system, the regale and the pontifical were united


    3. That voice of the pontifical Magician, as of subterranean thunder, still overawes adoring millions, still sends up to heaven its 'blasphemies against the God of gods’: and the tyrant will 'prosper until the indignation’ against Israel be accomplished (Dan


    4. Countless are they who, born of mean parentage, have risen to the highest dignities, pontifical and imperial, and of the truth of this I could give thee instances enough to weary thee


    5. "The fact is, that you have inspired not only the pontifical government, but also the neighboring states, with such extreme fear, that they are glad of all opportunity of making an example


    6. "Can I have been intercepted by French telegrams to the pontifical authorities?" He resolved to end his anxiety


    7. "I beg pardon—Ladies, Gentlemen, and Children—I must apologize, I had inadvertently omitted a considerable section of this audience" (tumult, during which the Professor stood with one hand raised and his enormous head nodding sympathetically, as if he were bestowing a pontifical blessing upon the crowd), "I have been selected to move a vote of thanks to Mr


    8. If not, what good are all his statistics, calculations, and pontifical judgments?”


    9. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, a magnificent crosier,—all the pontifical vestments which had been stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun


    10. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth

    11. "40 Diplomatic ciphers are slang; the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, grkztntgzyal for despatch, and abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI


    12. Unsmiling, but not gloomy or pontifical, the man said, ‘Guido Fantoccini, at your service


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    Synonyms for "pontifical"

    pontifical grandiloquent overblown pompous portentous episcopal apostolic apostolical papal priestly

    "pontifical" definitions

    the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)


    proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles


    denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops


    puffed up with vanity