pontifical

• adj. 罗马教宗的；主教的
• n. 主教仪典书；主教祭服及徽章

1. proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles;

"papal dispensation"

2. denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops

3. puffed up with vanity;

"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"

"overblown oratory"

"a pompous speech"

"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

Papal diplomats , all priests nowadays , are trained at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome.

如今教廷的外交官都是牧师, 都在罗马的圣座神职学院(PontificalEcclesiasticalAcademy)接受培训.

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His words criticising modern society just right indicate his pontifical character.

他用以批评现代社会的言论恰好反映了他自大武断的性格。

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来自拉丁语pontifex,主祭司，教皇，词源同pontiff.

1. His words criticising modern society just right indicate his pontifical character.

他用以批评现代社会的言论恰好反映了他自大武断的性格。

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2. Papal diplomats , all priests nowadays , are trained at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome.

如今教廷的外交官都是牧师, 都在罗马的圣座神职学院(PontificalEcclesiasticalAcademy)接受培训.

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pontifical (adj.)

early 15c., from Middle French pontifical and directly from Latin pontificalis "of or pertaining to the high priest," from pontifex (see pontifex). Hence pontificalia "trappings of a bishop."