Definitions
puffed up with vanity
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin pontificālis.
Used in a sentence
“Now had they brought the work by wondrous art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock / Over the vexed abyss.”
“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; […]”
“If the editio princeps was an attempt to create an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.”
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01“Papal”10 letters
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