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Meanings of pontifical in inglês
Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
Synonyms
Examples for "pompous"
Examples for "pompous"
1
Its capital runs into millions; its prospectuses are pompous; its pay-roll mysterious.
2
Many say his at times schoolmasterly manner of explaining issues sounds pompous.
3
The pompous collaborator stepped forward, and Kira realized her opportunity had come.
4
The younger man ignored the pompous tone of this speech; he nodded.
5
The heavy, pompous clouds were floating in the sky over their heads.
1
But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history.
2
The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
3
The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous.
4
But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
5
Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
1
But many others felt the new year holiday saga had been overblown.
2
A sizable minority of Americans continue to think coronavirus concerns are overblown.
3
But McGregor said all the concern about dangers proved to be overblown.
4
The collage effect is brilliantly achieved technically but at times seems overblown.
5
In other words, they say fears of a skills shortage are overblown.
1
It was grandiloquent, and it often took long to reach the point.
2
He preferred, in his grandiloquent way, to call a spade a spade.
3
The image suggests a grandiloquent eccentric, a man engaged in endearing folly.
4
He made her a grandiloquent bow and sat down at his desk.
5
They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent.
Usage of pontifical in inglês
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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Pontifical through the time
Pontifical across language varieties
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