pontificial

Hieronymus Mengus, with many other pontificial writers, prescribe and set down several forms of exorcisms, as well to houses possessed with devils, as to demoniacal persons; but I am of

Anatomy of Melancholy

But for the rest I will not justify that pontificial consubstantiation, that which [6498] Mahometans and Jews justly except at, as Campanella confesseth, Atheismi triumphat. cap.

Anatomy of Melancholy

Boerhaave, too tame, and have listened to the lure of Paracelsus, and adopted, with its high pontificial manner and medication, the more luxurious empiricism of the medicasters of five centuries ago.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration

His manner was impressive and slightly pontificial; his voice resonant and engaging.

Unleavened Bread

The bishop in his pontificial robes, in solemn procession, received the consecrated wafer, which promptly descended into pious hands.

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance

But all he got for his pontificial pains was an "I piss on you!

The First Man in Rome