Talk:pontifical

RFV
Not in dictionaries; not cited so far. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:50, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Rfv-sense: The office of a pontiff
 * Rfv-sense: a pontiff
 * Rfv-sense: a pontifical mass


 * turns up a lot of uses of "pontifical" as a noun meaning something other than clothes, but I'm not sure quite what.
 * 2001, Leon F. Strieder, The Promise of Obedience: A Ritual History, page 32:
 * 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
 * Perhaps "an instance of pontificating"? heh. - -sche (discuss) 19:17, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The quotations seems to fit to the first noun sense of Webster 1913: pontifical--"A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff", the second sense of MW: pontifical and the third sense (first noun sense) of Collins: pontifical. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:45, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I have removed the senses; they remained uncited: RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 08:36, 23 October 2012 (UTC)