Talk:pontifical

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  • Rfv-sense: The office of a pontiff
  • Rfv-sense: a pontiff
  • Rfv-sense: a pontifical mass

Not in dictionaries; not cited so far. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:50, 26 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

google books:"a pontifical in" turns up a lot of uses of "pontifical" as a noun meaning something other than clothes, but I'm not sure quite what.
  • 2001, Leon F. Strieder, The Promise of Obedience: A Ritual History, page 32:
    William Durandus, bishop of Mende in the south of France, compiled a pontifical in three books. William never intended his work to be a universal pontifical, but its clarity of arrangement and quality of substance, along with
Perhaps "an instance of pontificating"? heh. - -sche (discuss) 19:17, 26 August 2012 (UTC)Reply
The quotations seems to fit to the first noun sense of Webster 1913: pontifical--"A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff", the second sense of MW: pontifical and the third sense (first noun sense) of Collins: pontifical. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:45, 27 August 2012 (UTC)Reply
I have removed the senses; they remained uncited: RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 08:36, 23 October 2012 (UTC)Reply