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