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All pontifical synonyms

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adjective pontifical

  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • juristic — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
  • rabbinical — of or relating to rabbis or their learning, writings, etc.
  • judgelike — Resembling a judge or some aspect of one.
  • episcopal — Of a bishop or bishops.
  • juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
  • judicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.

adj pontifical

  • monkish — of, relating to, or resembling a monk: a monkish manner.
  • highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • deistic — a person who believes in deism.
  • legalistic — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
  • doctrinal — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
  • apostolic — Apostolic means belonging or relating to a Christian religious leader, especially the Pope.
  • clerical — Clerical jobs, skills, and workers are concerned with work that is done in an office.
  • churchgoing — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
  • born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
  • fustian — a stout fabric of cotton and flax.

noun pontifical

  • nuncio — a diplomatic representative of the pope at a foreign court or capital: equal in status to an ambassador.
  • ablegate — a papal envoy who has important duties abroad such as bringing a cardinal's insignia to him when he has just been appointed, or taking a message to a sovereign

adverb pontifical

  • grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
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