pontificial
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin pontificius.
Adjective
[edit]pontificial (not comparable)
- (obsolete) papal; pontifical
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- pontificial writers
References
[edit]- “pontificial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.