pontifical

adj

1. Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
2. Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
3. Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
4. Splendid; magnificent.
5. Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
6. (poetic)Of or relating to the building or forming of bridges.

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

noun

1. A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

   “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; […]”

   “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 […]”

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