Main entry: pontifical
Definition: the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
Main entry: overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous, grandiloquent
Definition: puffed up with vanity
Usage: a grandiloquent and boastful manner; overblown oratory; a pompous speech; pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek
Main entry: episcopal, pontifical
Definition: denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops
Main entry: papal, apostolic, apostolical, pontifical
Definition: proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
Usage: papal dispensation