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pontifical
adjective as in pertaining to pope
Strong match
Example Sentences
German Hans Zollner leads the Centre for Child Protection at the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifical Gregorian University.
Bishop Sánchez is the chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Kicking off the weeklong celebrations, the pope seemed to welcome the security challenge as part and parcel of pontifical work.
As a young seminarian, he studied in Washington, D.C., and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
After the cardinal audience and a celebratory lunch, the pope will prepare to leave the pontifical apartments.
They built others in other cities; but still they had a horror of tapers, lustral water, pontifical habits, etc.
Meanwhile, the cardinal had passed behind the altar to put on his pontifical robes; soon he reappeared with the holy vial.
First, there is the "atheist formula" of 'art for the sake of art';—a heresy he scourged with pontifical anathemas.
The highest religious officer of the state, the pontifex maximus, was from this time on elected by the Pontifical College.
Mr. Wilmot waved a pontifical good-bye and vanished in the direction of Kensington.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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