pontifical

/pon-tif-i-kuhl/US // pɒnˈtɪf ɪ kəl //UK // (pɒnˈtɪfɪkəl) //

教廷,教会,教廷的,教廷式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- : pompous, dogmatic, or pretentious: to resent someone's pontifical manner.

n.名词 noun

1
- : a book containing the forms for the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies to be performed by bishops.
- : pontificals, the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff, especially a bishop.

adj.pertaining to pope

Synonyms

German Hans Zollner leads the Centre for Child Protection at the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifical Gregorian University.
Bishop Sánchez is the chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Kicking off the weeklong celebrations, the pope seemed to welcome the security challenge as part and parcel of pontifical work.
As a young seminarian, he studied in Washington, D.C., and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
After the cardinal audience and a celebratory lunch, the pope will prepare to leave the pontifical apartments.
They built others in other cities; but still they had a horror of tapers, lustral water, pontifical habits, etc.
Meanwhile, the cardinal had passed behind the altar to put on his pontifical robes; soon he reappeared with the holy vial.
First, there is the "atheist formula" of 'art for the sake of art';—a heresy he scourged with pontifical anathemas.
The highest religious officer of the state, the pontifex maximus, was from this time on elected by the Pontifical College.
Mr. Wilmot waved a pontifical good-bye and vanished in the direction of Kensington.