noun
the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
adjective
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
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Examples
- papal dispensation
adjective
denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
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adjective
puffed up with vanity
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Examples
- a grandiloquent and boastful manner
- overblown oratory
- a pompous speech
- pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek