Pontifical Definition
pontifical
adjective
- proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation"
- denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
- puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
noun
- the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
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