Search Result for "pontifical":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop);
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles;
- Example: "papal dispensation"
[syn: papal, apostolic, apostolical, pontifical]
2. denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops;
[syn: episcopal, pontifical]
3. puffed up with vanity;
- Example: "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
- Example: "overblown oratory"
- Example: "a pompous speech"
- Example: "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
[syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pontifical \Pon*tif"ic*al\, n. [F.] 1. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. The dress and ornaments of a pontiff. "Dressed in full pontificals." --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pontifical \Pon*tif"ic*al\, 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the building of bridges. [R.] [1913 Webster] Now had they brought the work by wondrous art Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock Over the vexed abyss. --Milton. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "pontifical": apostolic, arrogant, bigoted, bloated, bombastic, conceited, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, flatulent, formal, gassy, grandiloquent, important, inflated, magisterial, opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, oracular, papal, papish, papist, papistic, peremptory, pompous, popish, positive, positivistic, pronunciative, puffy, self-important, self-opinionated, self-opinioned, solemn, stilted, stuffy, swollen, tumid, turgid
