Definitions for pontificate

pontificate pon·tif·i·cate

Spelling: [noun pon-tif-i-kit, -keyt; verb pon-tif-i-keyt]
IPA: /noun pɒnˈtɪf ɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt; verb pɒnˈtɪf ɪˌkeɪt/

Pontificate is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 619 anagrams from letters in pontificate (acefiinoptt).

Definitions for pontificate

noun

  1. the office or term of office of a pontiff.

verb (used without object)

  1. to perform the office or duties of a pontiff.
  2. to speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner:
  3. to serve as a bishop, especially in a Pontifical Mass.

Origin of pontificate

1575-85; (noun) Latin pontificātus; see pontifical, -ate3; (v.) Medieval Latin pontificātus past

Examples for pontificate

In the pontificate of Nicholas V. it was destroyed by an inundation.

The Cardinal was an early riser, and was to pontificate at high mass in the Lateran.

Given at Lyons, on the 3rd of July, in the fifth year of our pontificate.

Leo was disturbed throughout his pontificate by heresy and schism.

He died on the 27th day of his pontificate, and was succeeded by Paul V.

Benedict may well want to cut short the time available for the cardinals to politick, posture, and pontificate, as it were.

But it was not so with that pontificate on which the Church was built.

In the next place he was an upholder of the Maccabean pontificate.

What authority is there for believing it to have been cast in the pontificate of St. Leo?

He died in 604, after a pontificate of thirteen years and six months.

Word Value for pontificate
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Words with friends

21

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