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pontific, a. Now rare or Obs.|pɒnˈtɪfɪk|
[f. L. pons, pont-em bridge + -ficus making; but used in sense of pontificius: see pontificial.]
1. Rom. Antiq. = pontifical a. 5.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 37 What their twelve Tables, and the Pontifick College with their Augurs and Flamins taught them.
2. = pontifical a. 1–3.
1716Loyal Mourner 64 For both Pontific, and Schismatick Chair; Nay, all the World of Errors stood in fear. a1770Akenside Poems (1789) II. 45 [He] to eternal exile bore Pontific rage and vassal dread. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) I. 342 The Pontific power arrogated by the Head of the Law.
3. ? = pontifical a. 4.
1716Swift Pethox 94, You o'er the high triumphal arch Pontifick made your glorious march.
¶4. catachr. Pertaining to a bridge. (Cf. pontifical a. 6.) humorous nonce-use.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) II. 125 To be driven forth out of my house by domestic winds, and despoiled of my castor by pontific ones. |