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pontificals

pontificals noun: the vestments of a bishop, priest, or pope. Also the plural of pontifical.

Noun

pontificals

  1. The vestments of a bishop, priest, or pope.
    • The pope sits upon a draped throne chair, robed in full pontificals, holding the keys in one hand, and giving the benediction with the other.1868, Charles Callahan Perkins, Italian sculptors, page 121

Also used as

pontificals is also the plural of pontifical.

Questions about pontificals

What does pontificals mean?
Pontificals means the vestments of a bishop, priest, or pope.
What part of speech is pontificals?
Pontificals is a noun.

Words near pontificals in the dictionary

  1. Pontifical States
  2. pontificalia
  3. pontificalities
  4. pontificality
  5. pontifically
  6. pontificals
  7. pontificate
  8. pontificated
  9. pontificates
  10. pontificating
  11. pontificatingly

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