Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Bridgework; the structure or edifice of a bridge; a bridge.
Wiktionary
- n. Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge.
Etymologies
- Latin pontificem, accusative singular of pontifex, from the noun pons, pontis, a bridge + facere to make. Compare pontiff. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mandatum etiam � supremo pontifice habebamus, vt cuncta, perscrutaremur et videremus omnia diligenter.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Bruno confines his use of the word pontiff to three of the final sections on priestly vestments: Quid pallium significet, De vittis, and De summo pontifice.”
“In the section De summo pontifice, Bruno asserts that he does not believe that the pope wears purple robes because of his royal power but because Constantine once gave to Pope Sylvester all the imperial insignia. 25”
“Actum Tornaci, anno domenice incarnationis M.C. III, regnante rege Philippo, episcopante domo Baldrico pontifice.”
“Actum Tornaci, anno domenice incarnationis M.C. III, regnante rege Philippo, episcopante domo Baldrico pontifice_.”
“Discurso sobre la elección de sucessor del pontificado en vida del pontifice" (Seville).”
“See also theological works on the tract De ecclesiâ et de Romano pontifice; likewise treatises on orders, v. g.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“(ROME, 1909); IDEM, Le solenni ceremonie della messa pontificale celebrata dal sommo pontifice (Rome, 1904); RINALDI-BUCCI,”
“Cæremoniale missæ quæ summo pontifice celebratur (Ratisbon, 1889);”
“M.x. is well shown in the story of Tremellius the praetor, who in the middle of the second century B.C. was fined (by a tribune?) "quod cum M. Aemilio pontifice maximo iniuriose contenderat, sacrorumque quam magistratuum ius potentius fuit.”
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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