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Definition of Pontifies
1. pontify [v] - See also: pontify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontifies
Literary usage of Pontifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, Charles Whibley (1899)
"... that is to say: The pontifies or chiefe Priests, the Augures, ... the charge
of providing the sacred feasts, the sumptuous suppers of the pontifies, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... for there were pontifies..* from of old in other parts of Italy. Marquardt
conjectures that the name originally denoted atoning functions, from the same ..."
3. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1894)
"... in the fourteenth century, the Pope got the confirmation of all bishops into
his own hands. In s. 9 he says : *' Licet, vero, hœ pontifies ..."
4. Florentine History: From the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of by Henry Edward Napier (1847)
"The administrators of his bank i were made treasurers of the holy see ; he received
a the lucrative alum mines of La Tolfa in the pontifies his brother ..."
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