Castilliers, the very same who never cared to hump his chambermaids but when he was in pontificalibus. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
The clergy in rochet, alb, and other best pontificalibus. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Words.] Reference
"By thabbott in pontificalibus wthis croysyer, deacon and subdeacon.". From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
This made me call to mind a saying of the venerable abbot of Castilliers, the very same who never cared to hump his chambermaids but when he was in pontificalibus. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
Such a bishop is also called vicarius in pontificalibus, i.e. a representative in certain ceremonial acts proper to the diocesan bishop, sometimes suffragan bishop, episcopus suffraganeus. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
When the day of the Inauguration is come, there resort thither, first the Patriarch with the Metropolitanes, arch-bishops, bishops, abbots and priors, al richly clad in their pontificalibus. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04] Reference
His exclamation on the Queen's death, when he offered to proclaim the Pretender at Charing Cross in pontificalibus, and swore, on not being supported, that there was the best cause in England lost for want of spirit, is now believed also. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
The Bishop, in pontificalibus, was dressed in a crimson velvet and white satin dress, embroidered in gold, which had cost £300 at Vienna; and as he sat in his chair, with mitre on head, and crosier in hand, looked, with his white bushy beard, an imposing representative of spiritual authority. From Wordnik.com. [Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.] Reference
The intention is again facetious; but the incongruity between a Latin inflected ablative and English uninflected objectives is a kind of piping to which no man can dance; that the English in and the Latin in happen to be spelt alike is no defence; it is clear that in is here English, not Latin; either in pontificalibus, or in other pontificalia. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Words.] Reference
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