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Definition of Pontiffs
1. pontiff [n] - See also: pontiff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontiffs
Literary usage of Pontiffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The Roman pontiffs formed the moat illus- institution, like that of all ...
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2. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim, James Murdock (1841)
"Moreover, the modern pontiffs differ exceedingly from their predecessors in ...
For the sovereign princes and states, though they treat the pontiffs ..."
3. Cicero: A Sketch of His Life and Works by Hannis Taylor, Mary Lillie Taylor Hunt (1916)
"... the pontiffs could only acquire jurisdiction over A sacred i purely civil
controversy through the engrafting of a .acred element which was added by ..."
4. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"Priesthoods ; pontiffs and Augurs. — Under these conditions there grew up in ...
The six pontiffs had a general oversight of the whole system of divine law, ..."
5. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Based on Sir William by Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"01, the original number was fonr ; The pontiffs convoked the assembly of the
Cicero (Bip. ü. ... This number of pontiffs remained tor a long time unaltered. ..."
6. A History of the Mental Growth of Mankind in Ancient Times by John Shertzer Hittell (1893)
"First were the pontiffs (pontifices), under a chief pontiff ... The board of
pontiffs had books of ecclesiastical ceremonial and of sacerdotal disciplinary ..."
7. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1878)
"300 the number of pontiffs was increased from five to eight, and that of the
augurs from six to nine, and it was enacted that four pontiffs and five augurs ..."
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