By or as a pontiff, bishop, or other high-ranking cleric, esp. the Pope; in a manner appropriate to a pontiff.
After the manner of a bishop.
= pontifically, adv.
In an episcopal manner. In the rank of a bishop; as a bishop is or does.
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