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denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek pretentious proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation" |
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