eng: pontifical

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Meaning
means	(noun) the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop) pontifical
means	(adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation" apostolic, papal, pontifical, apostolical
means	(adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops episcopal, pontifical
means	(adjective) puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek pompous, grandiloquent, portentous, overblown, pontifical