Crossword-Solution: PONTIFICALS
We have 4 clues for the answer “PONTIFICALS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| PONTIFICALIA | 1 answer |
| PONTIFICALIS | 1 answer |
| INSIGNIA of bishop | 2 answers |
| VESTMENTS of bishop | 2 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "PONTIFICALS"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Love or hate, for instance
?
E
?
M
?
O
?
T
?
I
?
O
?
N
Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
NTOOMEI
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
9 +1
New Suggestion for "PONTIFICALS"
Related word tools
Sentences with PONTIFICALS (5)
There came a clatter of hooves under our windows, which stood open to the tepid September morning, and soon there was old Busio ushering in an officer of the Pontificals with a parchment tied in scarlet silk and sealed with the arms of Piacenza.
Yet I reflected that it was possible that, news of the revolt in Piacenza having reached Parma, this was an army of Pontificals moving thence upon the rebellious city.
Concerning Pinturicchio and Alexander, Vasari tells us, in his Vita degli Artefici, that over the door of one of the rooms in the Borgia Tower the artist painted a picture of the Virgin Mary in the likeness of Giulia Farnese (who posed to him as the model) with Alexander kneeling to her in adoration, arrayed in full pontificals.
Yet one reputable writer after another has repeated that lie of Vasari’s, and shocked us by the scandalous spectacle of a Pope so debauched and lewd that he kneels in pontificals, in adoration, at the feet of his mistress depicted as the Virgin Mary.
Detesting the ruling house, and indignant at the injustices it practised, they detested the priests still more--so much that they would have taken sides with Satan himself against the Pontificals.