PONTIFFS Synonyms

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

• denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops

• the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)

• puffed up with vanity

• an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

• a bishop of highest rank

• a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ

• port wine mulled with oranges and cloves

• (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color

• being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order

• (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes

• the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order

• a variable color averaging a vivid red

• crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male

• serving as an essential component

• title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)

• the male head of family or tribe

• any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

• a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church

• English poet and satirist (1688-1744)

• a senior clergyman and dignitary

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church

• English poet and satirist (1688-1744)

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church