pontifical

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pontifical Definition

• (a) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation"
• (a) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
• (s) puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

pontifical Synonyms

• apostolic
• apostolical
• episcopal
• grandiloquent
• overblown
• papal
• pompous
• pontifical
• portentous