Pontificalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɒnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l/
• (General American) IPA: /pɑnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l/

形容詞

pontifical (comparative more pontifical, superlative most pontifical)

1. Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
   1. Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal.
   2. Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.
2. Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
3. Splendid; magnificent.
4. Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
5. (chiefly poetic) Of or relating to the building or forming of bridges.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Now had they brought the work by wondrous art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock / Over the vexed abyss.

派生語

• pontifical cell

名詞

pontifical (plural pontificals)

1. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.
   • 1995, Richard A. Jackson, Ordines coronationis Franciae […] , page 30:

     Both ordines are related to an ordo in a pontifical in Reims, the Ordo of 1200 (Ordo XIX). The latter was to be consulted again and again, and its formulas were to have a marked effect upon the French ceremony; […]

   • 2001, Leon F. Strieder, The Promise of Obedience: A Ritual History, page 32:

     William Durandus, bishop of Mende in the south of France, compiled a pontifical in three books. William never intended his work to be a universal pontifical, but its clarity of arrangement and quality of substance, along with […]

   • 2007, Terence Bailey, Alma Colk Santosuosso, editors, Music in Medieval Europe […] , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 199:

     If the editio princeps was an attempt to create an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.

使用する際の注意点

The plural, pontificals, refers to "the vestments of a bishop".