pontifical
英 [p?n't?f?k(?)l]
美[pɑn't?f?kl]
- adj. 羅馬教宗的；主教的
- n. 主教儀典書；主教祭服及徽章
英英釋意
- 1. proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles;
- "papal dispensation"
- 2. denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
- 3. puffed up with vanity;
- "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
- "overblown oratory"
- "a pompous speech"
- "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek