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pontifiˈcation
[n. of action from med.L. pontificāre to perform pontifical functions.]
†1. = pontificate n. b. Obs. rare—1.
1521Ld. Dacre Answ. in Archæologia XVII. 206 The xiijth yere of the Pontificacion of the said lord Thomas [Wolsey].
2. The act or an instance of pontificating (pontificate v. 2).
1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place viii. 389 It is a pity to create prejudice..by ignorant pontifications about ‘the New Psychology’. 1959Spectator 4 Sept. 307/1 They will resent his careless pontification (‘Marxian materialism and Freudian psychology are excuses for laziness’). |