Pontifical - What does it mean?

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pontifical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to a pontiff.

# Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal.

# Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.

Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.

Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.

Of or relating to the building of bridges.

* Milton

Now had they brought the work by wondrous art / Pontifical , a ridge of pendent rock / Over the vexed abyss.

Noun

(en noun)

A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

* 1995 , Richard A. Jackson, Ordines coronationis Franciae: texts and ordines for the coronation of Frankish and French kings and queens in the Middle Ages , page 30:

Both ordines are related to an ordo in a pontifical in Reims, the Ordo of 1200 (Ordo XIX). The latter was to be consulted again and again, and its formulas were to have a marked effect upon the French ceremony;

* 2001 , Leon F. Strieder, The Promise of Obedience: A Ritual History , page 32:

William Durandus, bishop of Mende in the south of France, compiled a pontifical' in three books. William never intended his work to be a universal ' pontifical , but its clarity of arrangement and quality of substance, along with

Usage notes

The plural, pontificals , refers to "the vestments of a bishop". ----

Not English

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