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单词 pontiff
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pontiffn.

Brit. /ˈpɒntɪf/, U.S. /ˈpɑn(t)əf/
Forms: 1500s–1600s pontife, 1500s–1600s pontiffe, 1500s–1700s pontif, 1500s– pontiff. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pontife.
Etymology: < Middle French, French pontife, pontif the Pope (beginning of the 16th cent. in souverain pontif ), person vested with a sacred ministry (1538), bishop (1564) < classical Latin pontifex pontifex n.
1. Originally: a bishop of the early Western Church. Now: spec. the bishop of Rome, the Pope (often with distinguishing word, as supreme pontiff, sovereign pontiff, Roman pontiff, etc.).
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]
popeeOE
apostoilec1275
vicary1303
vicar1340
bridge maker1341
Antichristc1370
vicar generalc1386
Holy Fatherc1400
servant of the servants of Godc1405
His Holy Fatherhood?a1425
universal bishopc1475
holiness1502
harlot1535
papa1555
Apostolic seat1560
vicegerent1572
man of Rome1581
pontiff1583
bullman1588
apostolicship1599
Pontifex Maximus1610
infallibleship1613
sanctity1633
popeship1641
decretaliarch1656
blessedness1670
Holy seata1674
infallibilityship1679
pontifexa1680
holyshipc1680
unholiness1682
His Infallibility1834
Pape1927
1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. C.iv The highest Pontiffe or Bishoppe, graunted these foresaid graces to father Robert Persons and Edmonde Campion.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. C2v A great Pontife or Demy-god in omnisufficiencie thou wouldst enstall him.
a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 8 We..pronounce it to be of necessity to Salvation..to be subject to the Roman Pontife.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. viii. 105 The then reigning pontiff having favoured duke William in his projected invasion.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. p. lxvi/2 (note) The Roman pontiffs resided seventy years at Avignon.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 275 By far the most remarkable among modern pontiffs, was Sixtus the Fifth, the son of a peasant in the March of Ancona.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vi. i. 7 The Bishop of Toul did not travel to Rome as a pontiff, but as a pilgrim.
1906 Q. Rev. July 267 M. Loubet had grievously offended the Sovereign Pontiff.
1993 Times 5 June 12/7 The items..include..‘Pope-Scopes’—mini-periscopes to enable those at the back of the crowd to see the pontiff.
2. A chief or high priest of any religion. Also figurative.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun]
bishopc893
prelate?c1225
prince of priests?c1225
high priestc1400
pontificala1450
emperor clerkc1475
gentleman untrial1486
dignitya1525
Aaron1565
hierarch1574
presul1577
monsignor1579
church governor1588
pontiff1589
archbishop1600
monseigneur1601
monsignor1611
sheikh1613
protomist1619
Mar1622
hyperochality1637
protarch1654
pontifex1655
prelatical1658
dignitary1672
hierophanta1676
Monsig.1698
ecclesiarch1781
arch-pontiff1790
Mgr1848
Msgr.1868
patriarch-
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 210 A persecution of the Arabians by some seditious Mahometanes in the time of their Pontif. Habdul mumi.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 711 Coy-fi, who had beene a Pontife or Bishop of the heathen rites and ceremonies.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 59 in Trav. Persia A new Sadre, or Mahometan Pontiff, or Metropolitan of the whole Empire.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 171 The Khalifa of Bagdad..the legitimate Successor of Mahomet, and Sovereign Imaum or Pontiff of all the Mussulmans.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xx. 207 After the death of Crispus, the remorse of his father accepted from the ministers of Christianity the expiation which he had vainly solicited from the Pagan pontiffs.
1837 T. De Quincey Revolt of Tartars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 93/1 The other accomplice..whose rank was that of Lama, or Kalmuck pontiff, was a person of far more distinguished pretensions.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 9 Sept. 2/3 Which only shows that the Pontiffs of Science are no more infallible than other Infallibles.
1934 A. Huxley Let. 28 Apr. (1969) 380 Wouldn't it be more suitable to have some sociological pontiff do the job?
1996 Armenian Reporter (Nexis) 13 Jan. 2 In Turkey the state runs religious affairs..from the assignment of muezzins (priests) to muftis (Muslim pontiff).
3. Roman History. = pontifex n. 1.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman
father patrate1533
fetial1533
flamen1533
pontifex1579
pontiff1600
septemvir1600
pontifice1603
Arval Brethren1656
Salian1781
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xl. 1087 M. Aemylius Lepidus was created the soveraigne pontife, notwithstanding many noble persons made suite therefore.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §771 Livy doth relate, that there were found..two coffins..whereof the one contained the body of king Numa,..and the other, his books of sacred rites and ceremonies, and the discipline of the pontifs.
1783 T. Wilson Archæol. Dict. at Epulones Cicero says the epulones were appointed to relieve the pontiffs who were not able to go thro' all the duties in the numerous sacrifices.
a1832 J. T. Graves Rom. & Canon Law in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 755/1 It is probable that Papirius, who was himself a pontiff, directed his attention principally to religious ceremonies.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 386/2 Appointed consul suffectus in the following year, he was admitted into the college of pontiffs and made governor of Britain.
2002 Coin News Apr. 24/3 There are quinarii which allude to his religious offices as Flamen and Pontiff.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
pontiff gall n. Obsolete rare
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1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 16 'Twas not the Strife of Malice, but of Pride; The Strife of Pontif Pride, not Pontif Gall.
pontiff pride n. Obsolete
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1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 16 'Twas not the Strife of Malice, but of Pride; The Strife of Pontif Pride, not Pontif Gall.
1835 G. Daniel Immortality in Mod. Dunciad 284 Where Pontiff pride, And bigot cruelty together hold Their midnight orgies.
C2.
pontiff purple n. rare a shade of purple associated with pontifical vestments; cf. pontifical adj. 5.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [noun] > deep purple
royal purple1605
imperial purple1750
Parma violet1822
Modena1879
prelate purple1881
pontiff purple1900
violette de Parme1904
1900 Daily News 13 Oct. 6/5 In all the new colours, brown, mauve, heliotrope, Pontiff purple.
1944 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. 20 Sept. 9/4 (advt.) Pontiff Purple, Black, or Brown.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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