Crossword-Solution: PONTIFICATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pontificate | n. | The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope. |
| Pontificate | n. | The term of office of a pontiff. |
| Pontificate | v. i. | To perform the duty of a pontiff. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “PONTIFICATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| dogmatise | 1 answer |
| administer a pontifical office | 1 answer |
| Pompously preach | 1 answer |
| PONTIFEX, office of | 1 answer |
| OFFICIATE as bishop | 1 answer |
| Expound with pomp | 1 answer |
| Credo, part 3 | 1 answer |
| Government of the Roman Catholic church | 2 answers |
| prelateship | 4 answers |
| PERIOD of office | 4 answers |
| Preside | 13 answers |
| Officiate | 18 answers |
| primacy | 21 answers |
| Declaim | 22 answers |
| eldership | 43 answers |
| Serve | 72 answers |
| Declamation | 80 answers |
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Sentences with PONTIFICATE (5)
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.
Balbo.) The friendship of Cæsar, (to whom he rendered the most important secret services in the civil war) raised him to the consulship and the pontificate, honors never yet possessed by a stranger.
Reign Of The Younger Justin.—Embassy Of The Avars.—Their Settlement On The Danube.—Conquest Of Italy By The Lombards.—Adoption And Reign Of Tiberius.—Of Maurice.—State Of Italy Under The Lombards And The Exarchs.—Of Ravenna.—Distress Of Rome.—Character And Pontificate Of Gregory The First.
May not this unknown Septetus have some reference to the chief of the Saxon Heptarchy, to Ina king of Wessex, who, in the pontificate of Gregory the Second, visited Rome for the purpose, not of baptism, but of pilgrimage! (Pagi.
His son and heir Octavian assumed, with the pontificate, the name of John XII.: like his predecessor, he was provoked by the Lombard princes to seek a deliverer for the church and republic; and the services of Otho were rewarded with the Imperial dignity.
Quotes with PONTIFICATE (3)
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand…
It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking rocket science. These must be the same people who hate Picasso, because he couldn't keep the paint inside the lines and the colors never matched the numbers.
The lovelorn, the cry-for-helpers, all mawkish tragedians who give suicide a bad name are the idiots who rush it, like amateur conductors. .A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, 'Suicide is selfishness.' Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reasons: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one’s audience with one’s mental fiber, to vent anger, or just …
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2018).