pontifician

English

Adjective

pontifician (comparative more pontifician, superlative most pontifician)

1. Of or relating to the pontiff or pope.
   • 1645, Joseph Hall, The Peacemaker:

     Pontifician Laws

Noun

pontifician (plural pontificians)

1. (obsolete) One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist.
   • 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:

     Freewill made no such controversie among moderate men , either of the Pontifician or Protestant side

Related terms

• pontiff

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pontifician”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)