Adjective: pontific
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pontific |
| Superlative | most pontific |
Sample Sentences
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the pontific college with their augurs and flamens [1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:]
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pontific fury [a. 1763, William Shenstone, The Ruined Abby:]
Adjectives inflected like pontific
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Compare Latin pontificius. See: Latin Adjectives '
pontificius'.