1. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
   - papal, apostolic, apostolical 
2. Denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
   - episcopal 
3. Puffed up with vanity
   "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"
   - grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous

1. The vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)

Derived forms: pontificals

See also: bishop, pontiff, pretentious

Type of: vestment

Encyclopedia: Pontifical

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