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Meaning of word pontifical from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.
pontifical adjective
Meaning : Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
Example :
Papal dispensation.
Synonyms : apostolic, apostolical, papal
Meaning : Denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops.
Synonyms : episcopal
Meaning : Puffed up with vanity.
Example :
A grandiloquent and boastful manner.
Overblown oratory.
A pompous speech.
Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey.
Synonyms : grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous
