Pontificial vs Pontifical - What's the difference?
pontificial | pontifical |
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
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:
* 2001 , Leon F. Strieder, The Promise of Obedience: A Ritual History , page 32:
As adjectives the difference between pontificial and pontifical
is that pontificial is (obsolete) papal; pontifical while pontifical is of or pertaining to a pontiff.As a noun pontifical is
a book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.pontificial
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pontifical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Now had they brought the work by wondrous art / Pontifical , a ridge of pendent rock / Over the vexed abyss.
Noun
(en noun)- 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;
- 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