Pontificates is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 1327 anagrams from letters in pontificates (acefiinopstt).
1575-85; (noun) Latin pontificātus; see pontifical, -ate3; (v.) Medieval Latin pontificātus past
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.
This is the principle of that divine series of frescoes, with which under the pontificates of Julius II.
In Rome this custom prevailed, at least since the pontificates of Xystus and Telesphorus (about 120).
Buddy rambles, digresses, pontificates, and fails completely to make Seymour Glass seem a believable human being.
In all he worked under the pontificates of seven different popes.
The bas-reliefs represent historical subjects of the two pontificates.