Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bridgework; the structure or edifice of a bridge; a bridge.
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- noun rare Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge.
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- noun
Bridgework ;structure oredifice of abridge .
Etymologies
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Mandatum etiam � supremo pontifice habebamus, vt cuncta, perscrutaremur et videremus omnia diligenter.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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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
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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.
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Actum Tornaci, anno domenice incarnationis M.C. III, regnante rege Philippo, episcopante domo Baldrico pontifice.
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Actum Tornaci, anno domenice incarnationis M.C. III, regnante rege Philippo, episcopante domo Baldrico pontifice_.
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(ROME, 1909); IDEM, Le solenni ceremonie della messa pontificale celebrata dal sommo pontifice (Rome, 1904); RINALDI-BUCCI,
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Cæremoniale missæ quæ summo pontifice celebratur (Ratisbon, 1889);
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"Discurso sobre la elección de sucessor del pontificado en vida del pontifice" (Seville).
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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
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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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