[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pontifical \pontif"ical\, n. f.
   1. a book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a
      pontiff. --south.
      1913 webster

   2. pl. the dress and ornaments of a pontiff. "dressed in full
      pontificals." --sir w. scott.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pontifical \pontif"ical\, a. l. pontificalis: cf. f.
   pontifical. see pontiff.
   1. of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as,
      pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal.
      1913 webster

   2. of or pertaining to the building of bridges. r.
      1913 webster

            now had they brought the work by wondrous art
            pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock
            over the vexed abyss.                 --milton.
      1913 webster
see also:
pontiff 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

pontifical
     adj 1: proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the
            papacy regarded as the successor of the apostles;
            "papal dispensation" syn: papal, apostolic, apostolical
     2: denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
        syn: episcopal
     3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
        manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
        "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
        newsweek syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous
see also:
papal apostolic apostolical episcopal grandiloquent overblown 
pompous portentous 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

41 moby thesaurus words for "pontifical":
   apostolic, arrogant, bigoted, bloated, bombastic, conceited,
   doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dogmatic, dogmatizing, flatulent,
   formal, gassy, grandiloquent, important, inflated, magisterial,
   opinionated, opinionative, opinioned, oracular, papal, papish,
   papist, papistic, peremptory, pompous, popish, positive,
   positivistic, pronunciative, puffy, self-important,
   self-opinionated, self-opinioned, solemn, stilted, stuffy, swollen,
   tumid, turgid

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