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