Crossword clues for pontificate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pontificate \Pon*tif"i*cate\, n. [L. pontificatus: cf. F. pontificat. See Pontiff.]
The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.
--Addison.The term of office of a pontiff.
--Milman.
Pontificate \Pon*tif"i*cate\, v. i. (R. C. Ch.) To perform the duty of a pontiff.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1818, "to act as a pontiff," from Medieval Latin pontificatus, past participle of pontificare "to be a pontifex," from Latin pontifex (see pontiff). Meaning "to assume pompous and dignified airs, issue dogmatic decrees" is from 1825. Meaning "to say (something) in a pontifical way" is from 1922. Related: Pontificated; pontificating.
1580s, from Latin pontificatus "office of a pontiff," from pontifex (see pontifex).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. The state or term of office of a pontiff or pontifex. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass. 2 (context intransitive English) To act like a pontiff; to express one’s position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct. 3 (context intransitive English) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
WordNet
n. the government of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: papacy]
v. administer a pontifical office
talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner; "The new professor always pontificates"
Wikipedia
Pontificate is the form of government used in the Vatican City The word come to English from French and do in other words simply means Papacy or "To perform the functions of the Pope or other high official in the Church." Since there is only one Bishop of Rome, or Pope is pontificate sometimes also used to describe the era of a Pope. It must not be confused with the Holy See, which since ancient times equals the episcopal see of Rome, while the Pontificate in the Vatican City is the type of government used there, and is neither a kingdom nor a republic.
Usage examples of "pontificate".
Philabet Griswold, the pompous Blesser of Avonderre-Navarne, had begun pontificating about Sorbold and the need for an immediate retaliation earlier but was glared into silence by Stephen Navarne, a member of his own See.
Melissa, Manish, and I, along with the four members of the junior team spent the afternoon listening to Hammond pontificate.
Passing through these faculties with baneful haste and a harmful diploma, they lay violent hands upon Moses, and sprinkling about their faces dark waters and thick clouds of the skies, they offer their heads, unhonoured by the snows of age, for the mitre of the pontificate.
Marco Antonio Casanova, secretary to Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, who died of the plague in Rome, in the year 1528, under the pontificate of Clement VII.
The resident would scramble around in the wound, dabbing with gauze sponge and hemostats, while the surgeon pontificated.
My reasons for this opinion are as follows: In the year of which I am speaking, the third of the Pontificate of Clement XIV.
Clements was treating the policewoman to one of his lectures, waving his hands as he pontificated on change and decay, Utopias and Dystopias, past glory and contemporary decadence.
I wished to go to Constantinople with the Russian fleet, but as Admiral Orlof, would not meet my conditions, I retraced my steps and went to Rome under the pontificate of Ganganelli.
This coronation of Gorilla is a blot on the pontificate of the present Pope, for henceforth no man of genuine merit will accept the honour which was once so carefully guarded by the giants of human intellect.
He undertook the conquest of the East, whilst the larger portion of Rome was possessed and fortified by his rival Guibert of Ravenna, who contended with Urban for the name and honors of the pontificate.
A number of the self-hustlers-second rate politicians, third-rate journalists, a few pompous, pontificating articulators of academia-were by chance "in the studios" or "on the other end of the line," ready to make their bids for immediate recognition, spreading their tasteless perceptions and admonitions on a numbed public only too willing to be taught in its moment of confusion.
On the contrary, in the first weeks of the new reign the cardinals treated Urban ‘s pontificate as so much an accomplished fact that they showered him with the usual petitions for benefices and promotions for their relatives.
He created cardinal John Borgia, a nephew, who during the last pontificate had been elected Archbishop of Montreal and Governor of Rome.
But in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty the ancient statutes were collected, methodized in three books, and adapted to present use, under the pontificate, and with the approbation, of Gregory the Thirteenth: ^83 this civil and criminal code is the modern law of the city.
By the time the editorialists start pontificating on the end of war, millions of people will have access to your work.