Crossword-Solution: PONTIFICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pontifical | a. | Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as, pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal. |
| Pontifical | a. | Of or pertaining to the building of bridges. |
| Pontifical | n. | A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff. |
| Pontifical | n. | The dress and ornaments of a pontiff. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “PONTIFICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Arrogant; haughty | 1 answer |
| CEREMONIAL book | 1 answer |
| CHURCH prayer book | 1 answer |
| of or like a pontiff | 1 answer |
| pretensive | 1 answer |
| Liturgical book | 2 answers |
| of-the-pope | 2 answers |
| Like many stump speeches | 5 answers |
| CHURCH book | 8 answers |
| Papal | 9 answers |
| Prayer book | 11 answers |
| ecclesiastical | 22 answers |
| Positive | 77 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PONTIFICAL (5)
Ledoux, and that Bellegarde’s acquaintance with him dated from the days when they served together in the Pontifical Zouaves.
Simon's system, the St.-Simonian priest determines the capacity of each by virtue of his pontifical infallibility, in imitation of the Roman Church: in Fourier's, the ranks and merits are decided by vote, in imitation of the constitutional regime.
Roberts, evidently thinking that the time had come to tell the truth, published a book entitled The Pontifical Decrees against the Earth's Movement, and in this exhibited the incontrovertible evidences that the papacy had committed itself and its infallibility fully against the movement of the earth.
XXIII In sacred stole, pontifical, arraid, Her the archbishop Turpin did baptize; Charlemagne from the healthful font the maid Uplifted with befitting ceremonies.
Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,—these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.
Quotes with PONTIFICAL (3)
I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was already active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed during the last half century? In science men change their opinions when new knowledge becomes available; but philosophy in the minds of many is assimilated rather to theology than to science. The kind of philosophy that I value and have endeavoured to…
In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they came into existence - or rather, people only came into existence by applying themselves to the building of said bridge. The human being is the pontifical creature that, from its earliest evolutionary stages, has created tradition-compatible connections between …
He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding existence, been through the revolutionary apocalypse. He knew its tradition like an eyewitness. He knew every little detail of that great thing. A pontifical and warrior nature, strange in a youth. He was officiating and militant; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of democracy; above the movement of the time, a priest of the ideal.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1984–2005).