pontificate 的 2 个定义
- the office or term of office of a pontiff.
pon·tif·i·cat·ed, pon·tif·i·cat·ing.
- to perform the office or duties of a pontiff.
- to speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner: Did he pontificate about the responsibilities of a good citizen?
- to serve as a bishop, especially in a Pontifical Mass.
pontificate 近义词
sermonize
pontificate 的近义词 13 个
- address
- admonish
- dogmatize
- evangelize
- harangue
- lecture
- minister
- moralize
- preach
- teach
- get on a soapbox
- give sermon
- pulpiteer
pontificate 的反义词 1 个
更多pontificate例句
- In the wake of Francis’s surgery, Alberto Melloni, a church historian, argued that this pontificate has entered a concluding chapter, where he will have to make decisions about the final things he might want to prioritize.
- But of course, there is the now fading memory of the election that followed the long pontificate of Pius XII.
- Benedict may well want to cut short the time available for the cardinals to politick, posture, and pontificate, as it were.
- The deficit hawks pontificate on camera while in the wings the tradesmen of the Congress fill districts with holiday cheer.
- The pope of Rome sent him a full set of all the medals struck during his pontificate.
- Cossa kept his word never to appeal against the sentence which stripped him of the pontificate.
- His cosmography, like all of them, began with the creation and came down to the pontificate of Martin V who was then Pope.
- Luther attacked not the abuses of the Roman pontificate, but the pontificate itself.
- Ferdinando de Medici, then a cardinal, had just failed in his candidacy for the pontificate (outwitted by that fox Montalto).