Synonym: apostolic, apostolical, episcopal, grandiloquent, overblown, papal, pompous, portentous. Similar words: pontificate, scientifically, identification, quantification, personal identification number, scientific, unscientific, certificate. Meaning: [pɑn'tɪfɪkl /pɒn-] 
n. the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop). adj. 1. proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles 2. denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops 3. puffed up with vanity.
n. the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop). adj. 1. proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles 2. denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops 3. puffed up with vanity. 
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(1) It became a congregation of pontifical right.
(2) He appoints a pontifical commission to conduct the administrative affairs of the state.
(3) There is no reason to suspect Tribonian of pontifical predilections, so it is hard to suppose that this is an interpolation.
(4) President of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
(5) He is always pontifical .
(6) Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said the award ignored the ethical questions raised by the fertility treatment.
(7) Most importantly, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Science positioned itself as a leading sponsor on scientific inquiry into extraterrestrial life.
(8) The archbishop, who is president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said dwindling numbers of worshippers at some churches meant it now made sense to sell, or even destroy[sentencedict.com], the buildings.
(9) The Pontifical Lateran University was founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1773 entrusted the Faculty of S. Theology and Philosophy del Collegio Romano to the clergy of Rome.
(10) The lightweight Lua language (developed at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil) includes a register-based VM.
(11) The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding a conference on astrobiology, the study of life beyond Earth, with scientists and religious leaders gathering in Rome this week.
(12) In contemporary usage it refers to the Pontifical Swiss Guard of Vatican City .
(13) Under John Paul the Curia acquired a string of new “pontifical councils”(sentencedict.com), quasi-ministries that deal with everything from health workers to canon law.
(14) The order received this like many other pontifical commissions, only with regret.
(15) We saw earlier how such explanations of inflation were greeted with pontifical disdain by monetarists.
(16) The campaign to reassess Judas is being led by Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, who is head of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Science.
(17) Earlier, in 1298, papal and episcopal ceremonies had been standardized in the Roman pontifical .
(18) It was Leo XII, in 1824, to move the seat at the Palais de S. Apollinaris where Pius IX in 1853 founded the Faculty of Canon Law and Civil Law and the Pontifical Institute Utriusque Iuris.
(19) His words criticising modern society just right indicate his pontifical character.
(20) He currently teaches European film in Switzerland and Poland, is a director of the Polish film studio TOR, and is a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
(21) In 1969 I returned to my native city of Rome to study at the prestigious Pontifical Gregorian University, where I was the first non-Catholic to be admitted in over 450 years of its history.
(22) The liaison for Vatican-Jewish relations -- Cardinal Walter Kasper, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity -- said he was not consulted.
(23) The defense of the Faith and the repression of heresy is essentially an apostolic and pontifical work.
(24) Last May I attended a conference on science and public policy at which a representative of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences gave a keynote address.
(25) Papal diplomats , all priests nowadays , are trained at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome.
More similar words: pontificate, scientifically, identification, quantification, personal identification number, scientific, unscientific, certificate, notification, fortification, mortification, mystification, certification, rectification, justification, scientific theory, beautification, sanctification, scientific method, desertification, birth certificate, specifically, ratification, gratification, stratification, certificate of deposit, self-gratification, social stratification, certificate of incorporation, artifice.