pontifical

Of or pertaining to a pontiff.

Of or pertaining to a pontiff.

Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.

Splendid; magnificent.

Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.

A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

Both ordines are related to an ordo in a pontifical in Reims, the Ordo of 1200 (Ordo XIX). The latter was to be consulted again and again, and its formulas were to have a marked effect upon the French ceremony; […]

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 […]