pontificals

/ pɒnˈtɪfɪkəlz /

plural noun

1. RC Church the insignia and special vestments worn by a bishop, esp when celebrating High Mass

Example Sentences

On high festivals the statue is dressed up in full pontificals.

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Later pontificals are numerous; we cannot describe all their variations.

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Before the altar, robed in full pontificals, sat in State the dead Archbishop, while lamps flickered solemnly, and muttered intercessions arose from the trembling lips of a ring of kneeling priests.

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The papal nuncio, dressed in his pontificals, took a prominent station on the mole; and as each vessel passed successively before him, he bestowed on it his apostolic benediction.

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This cortege was immediately preceded and followed by all the priests and prophets of the nation, in their splendid pontificals, and bearing the showy insignia of their various orders.

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