pontifical

英[pɒn'tɪfɪk(ə)l] 美[pɑn'tɪfɪkl]

1. proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles;

"papal dispensation"

2. denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops

3. puffed up with vanity;

"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"

"overblown oratory"

"a pompous speech"

"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek