There are only three institutions with the title pontifical: (1) The pontifical Seminary of Kandy, Ceylon; (2) The pontifical Seminary of Scutari (Collegium. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
This must be demonstrated not in pontifical phrases in front of the Empire Club but in actions that are producing the results we talk about. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to ReformOntario Style] Reference
For, as I shall belaborate below, a normal man is a vertical man -- or what Schuon called pontifical man. From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
His words sounded to me like a kind of pontifical blessing pronounced at the end of a liturgical service; and, dinner now being over, we adjourned to the library. From Wordnik.com. [At Large] Reference
26. strip Aaron of his garments -- that is, his pontifical robes, in token of his resignation. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
All the usual pontifical artifices proved abortive. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
You know, they made a lot of pontifical statements about. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2007] Reference
A pontifical brief pronounced a formal separation between the two. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
His successors on the pontifical throne proved somewhat more tractable. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
He felt that he could not argue with the pontifical zouave of bygone days. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
LEVINE: No, it is the highest pontifical knighthood accorded a musician in 200 years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2005] Reference
Neither pontifical law nor augural science ever obtained credit outside of the Latin world. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
In the pontifical of Bishop Lacy of Exeter may be found the office of the Benediction of a Widow. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
(Maffeo Barberini), who sat in the pontifical chair from 1623 to 1644, and finished by Bernini in 1640. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
The pontifical ambassador trembled lest the Protestants should, after all, obtain the largest concessions. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
The beginning of this period of papal splendor is marked by the accession to the pontifical throne of Innocent. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
He accused him of already aiming at the pontifical see, as if it were now vacant, and urged his immediate recall. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
On the accession of his friend Cardinal Barberini to the pontifical throne in 1623, under the title of Urban VIII. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
The rural superstitions of the country districts of Latium continued to live in the pontifical code of the Roman people. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
But the directive was issued in Latin only and was designated a "pontifical secret" to be handled only at the highest levels. From Wordnik.com. [Faith In Our Fathers?] Reference
Together the snake charmer and the camel ascended the cheering aisle and stopped in front of Jumbo, who adopted a grave pontifical air. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Barbarus remained at Rome, in receipt of a small pension from the pontifical government, until his death (probably from the plague) on the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Cicero claims that the pontifical as well as the augural books state that the right of appeal from the regal sentences had been recognized. From Wordnik.com. [The Twelve Tables] Reference
The hero, a pontifical notary, is a man of lofty ambition, dreaming in the midst of the depravity of the 14th century of reerecting the old. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Italy, with few exceptions, espoused the cause of Henry, and waited only the pontifical coronation of his rival, to rise in open rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference
In 1814 he was appointed musical director to the choir of the pontifical chapel, to which he had as early as 1802 gained admission in virtue of his fine bass voice. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
These accompaniments of royal and pontifical dignity, appear to be of Eastern origin; but the modern application of them is curiously contrasted with the ancient design. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Not even the pontifical authority itself need necessarily be abolished; for it was the desire of the Lutheran party, so far as possible, to retain all the accustomed forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
No man was more free from the pontifical airs of those historians who proclaimed history as an academic science to be confined within the chilly walls of libraries and colleges. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
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