See pontificate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"alt": "しきょうのしょく",
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"roman": "shikyō no shoku",
"sense": "state of a pontifex",
"word": "司教の職"
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"sense": "state of a pontifex",
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"word": "pontyfikat"
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"sense": "state of a pontifex",
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"word": "pontificado"
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"(intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass."
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"ref": "2007 May 13, Patrick Healy, “In New Role, Senator Clinton’s Strategist in Chief”, in New York Times:",
"text": "During a policy discussion awhile^([sic]) back about New York issues, when Mr. Clinton began to pontificate, she told him that he did not exactly know what he was talking about and to hush up.",
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"ref": "2014 January 16, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 482 - Blood:",
"text": "\"Do you hear that, Ryan? Your mommy is being a pontificating windbag.\"",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "preside as a bishop",
"word": "pontifier"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "preside as a bishop",
"word": "pontifikál"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "preside as a bishop",
"word": "pontificare"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "preside as a bishop",
"word": "pontificar"
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"sense": "act like a pontiff",
"word": "orakelen"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "act like a pontiff",
"word": "pontifier"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act like a pontiff",
"word": "pontificare"
},
{
"alt": "せっきょうする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sekkyō-suru",
"sense": "act like a pontiff",
"word": "説教する"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "saarnata"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "pontifier"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "kinyilatkoztat"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "pontificare"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "popuva",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "попува"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "sentar cátedra"
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"word": "pontificate"
}
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