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Meanings of pontifical in anglès
Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
Usage of pontifical in anglès
1
M. Edgeworth put on his pontifical robes, and began to celebrate mass.
2
Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and pontifical act.
3
I noted it, I think, in the case of the pontifical feminine dress.
4
They passed between the pontifical guards, who gave the priest the military salute.
5
A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
6
The statue of Lucifer grew immense behind the glittering pontifical figure of Florian.
7
The seal of pontifical reprobation is not removed from their foreheads.
8
When addressing his employees, the Colonel seldom bothered to assume his pontifical manner.
9
He has indicated that all pontifical ceremonies are scheduled for simplification.
10
Is the Pope himself being censored from within the pontifical palace?
11
As a Protestant cannot be dramatically projected without a pontifical antagonist.
12
Never, throughout his pontifical career, had the pope beheld such a crowd before.
13
That was Chervil with his phoney smile and his big fat pontifical belly.
14
I was introduced to one of the fifty-nine privileged partakers of the pontifical clemency.
15
A pontifical brief pronounced a formal separation between the two.
16
After the return from exile Joshua, Joachim, and Eliashib successively filled the pontifical office.
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