"pontifically" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From pontifical + -ly.",
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      "form": "more pontifically",
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          "ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 139:",
          "text": "He slapped his documents open on the table and seated himself pontifically, with a certain imminent redness lurking behind the formality of his expression.",
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        "In a pontifical manner; in the manner of a pope."
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          "word": "pontificalement"
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        "Whilst pontificating; with pontification."
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        "In a pontifical manner; in the manner of a pope."
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