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pontifical

English

  1. 🔊 denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
  2. 🔊 puffed up with vanity
    “a grandiloquent and boastful manner”
  3. 🔊 proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
    “papal dispensation”
  4. 🔊 the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)

Spanish

  1. 🔊 pontifical pontifical
  2. 🔊 pontificio pontifical

Similar words

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