pontifical

  • 91PONTIFICAL, ALE — adj. Qui appartient à la dignité de pontife, d’évêque. Autorité pontificale. Dignité pontificale. Habits, ornements pontificaux. Il se dit aussi de la Dignité du Souverain pontife. Le trône pontifical …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 92Pontifical University of Salamanca — The Pontifical University of Salamanca (in Spanish: Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, UPSA ) is an offshoot of the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain, resulting from the Spanish government s dissolution of the University of Salamanca… …

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  • 93Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina — Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (in English, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, known also as UCA ) is a private university with branches in several cities of Argentina. Its main seat is in Buenos Aires, and there are… …

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  • 94Pontifical North American College — Das Päpstliche Nordamerika Kolleg (lat.: Pontificum Collegium Civitatum Foederatarum Americae Septemtrionalis, ital.: Pontificio Collegio Americano Del Nord, engl.: Pontifical North American College) ist eine römisch katholische Lehranstalt in… …

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  • 95Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions — The Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (from the Latin Pontificium Institutum Missionum Exterarum) is a society of secular priests and lay people who dedicate their lives to missionary activities in: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia,… …

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  • 96pontifical mass — noun Usage: often capitalized P&M : a solemn mass celebrated by a bishop or by one of the higher ecclesiastical prelates * * * (sometimes l.c.) Rom. Cath. Ch. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate. * * * pontifical mass noun Mass… …

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  • 97pontifical — 1. adjective a) of or pertaining to a pontiff b) of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal 2. noun a) The office of a pontiff b) The vestments of a bishop …

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  • 98Pontifical — Book of office with the forms for the various rites performed by a bishop and the pope as bishop of Rome, e.g. ordination, consecration of a church, confirmation. [< Lat. pontifex = a bishop] …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 99pontifical — Synonyms and related words: apostolic, arrogant, bigoted, bloated, bombastic, conceited, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, flatulent, formal, gassy, grandiloquent, important, inflated, magisterial, opinionated, opinionative,… …

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  • 100PONTIFICAL —    a service book of the Romish Church, containing prayers and rites for a performance of public worship by the Pope or bishop; also in the plural the name of the full dress of an officiating priest …

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