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Definition of Pontificated
1. pontificate [v] - See also: pontificate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontificated
Literary usage of Pontificated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelve Outputs Selected from Among Lectures and Articles Put Out from 1879 by Eveleen Laura Mason (1907)
"IS AMERICA TO BE pontificated? To THE EDITOR:— When in 1893-'94 Dr. Mason and I
were in Rome, we saw a building bearing the inscription, "The American ..."
2. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"I got up at five and said my "office," dressed, etc.; at 7.30 said Mass at the
hospital, at ten pontificated the High Mass at Notre Dame, ran home to do ..."
3. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"I got up at five and said my "office," dressed, etc.; at 7.30 said Mass at the
hospital, at ten pontificated the High Mass at Notre Dame, ran home to do ..."
4. The History of Mother Seton's Daughters: The Sisters of Charity of by Mary Agnes McCann (1917)
"... All Saints Bishop Purcell pontificated and Bishop Brute preached. On November
2 (Sunday), ... pontificated and Bishop Flaget preached. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1902)
"THE ARCHBISHOP pontificated. He was assisted by Very Rev. HC Maring, SJ, and Very
Rev. MS Ryan, as Deacons of Honor; Very Rev. JM Laval, as Assistant Priest ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... pontificated. Both houses of the State Legislature then in session adjourned
out of respect to the deceased. Argus files (Albany, 24-28 Jan., 1873); ..."
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