pontifical

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to a pontiff.

2. 2

   Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.

3. 3

   Splendid

   Splendid; magnificent.

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   1. 4

      Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.

   2. 5

      Of or relating to the building or forming of bridges.

      • Now had they brought the work by wondrous art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock / Over the vexed abyss.
   3. 6

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

      • 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 […]
      • If the editio princeps was an attempt to create an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.

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