Crossword-Solution: PONTIFEX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pontifex | n. | A high priest; a pontiff. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PONTIFEX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| pontificis | 1 answer |
| priest ancient Roman | 2 answers |
| Ancient Roman priest | 3 answers |
| PRIEST, high | 3 answers |
| pontiff | 4 answers |
| High priest? | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PONTIFEX (5)
Fill to me again, thou of the Roman visage and all but Roman speech! Is not yonder the long gleaming of the Appian Way? Chant in the old measure, the song imperishable "dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex--" aye, and for how many an age when Pontiff and Vestal sleep in the eternal silence.
Even the Roman emperor was Pontifex Maximus as well as Imperator, but that was so not because the two offices were held to be inseparable, but because they were both conferred on the same person by the republic.
Inscriptions lately found in the Catacombs show that the members of the Academy described themselves as ‘sacerdotes,’ and called Pomponius Lætus ‘pontifex maximus;’ the latter once addressed Platina as ‘pater sanctissimus.’ Gregorovius, vii.
She was a tall, square-shouldered person (I have heard my father call her a Gothic woman) who had insisted on being married to Mr Pontifex when he was young and too good-natured to say nay to any woman who wooed him.
Bonaventure, to prove that the OEdipus of Sophocles was the work of the evil spirit; that Terence was excommunicated _ipso facto_; and added, that doubtless Brutus, who was a very severe Jansenist, assassinated Julius Caesar for no other reason but because he, who was Pontifex Maximus, presumed to write a tragedy the subject of which was OEdipus.