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Pontifical vs Fanon - What's the difference?

pontifical | fanon |

As nouns the difference between pontifical and fanon

is that pontifical is a book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff while fanon is a vestment reserved only for the Pope for use during a pontifical Mass.

As an adjective pontifical

is of or pertaining to a pontiff.

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". ----

    fanon

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vestment reserved only for the Pope for use during a pontifical Mass.
  • Part of a bishop's mitre. They are the tabs extending down from the mitre, often with a cross near the end of each. See lappet.
  • A maniple.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal, fandom) Elements introduced by fans which are not in the official canon of a fictional world but are widely believed to be or treated as if canonical.
    • See also
    * headcanon

    External links

    * (Papal Fanon) * * Fanon] article at [[w:TV Tropes, TV Tropes]

    References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989 ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Noun

    (f)
  • fennel