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"alt": "せっきょうする",
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"ref": "2007 May 13, Patrick Healy, “In New Role, Senator Clinton’s Strategist in Chief”, in New York Times",
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"ref": "2014 January 16, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 482 - Blood",
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"2": "la",
"3": "pontifex",
"4": "",
"5": "high priest"
},
"expansion": "Latin pontifex (“high priest”)",
"name": "uder"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "pons",
"3": "",
"4": "bridge"
},
"expansion": "pons (“bridge”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "facere",
"3": "",
"4": "make"
},
"expansion": "facere (“make”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the past participle stem of mediaeval Latin pontificare (“pontificate”), from Latin pontifex (“high priest”), from pons (“bridge”) + facere (“make”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pontificates",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "pontificating",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "pontificated",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pontificated",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "pontificate (third-person singular simple present pontificates, present participle pontificating, simple past and past participle pontificated)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To preside as a bishop, especially at mass."
],
"links": [
[
"preside",
"preside"
],
[
"bishop",
"bishop"
],
[
"mass",
"mass"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct."
],
"links": [
[
"pontiff",
"pontiff"
],
[
"express",
"express"
],
[
"dogmatically",
"dogmatically"
],
[
"pompously",
"pompously"
],
[
"absolutely",
"absolutely"
],
[
"correct",
"correct"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"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 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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length."
],
"links": [
[
"speak",
"speak"
],
[
"patronizing",
"patronizing"
],
[
"supercilious",
"supercilious"
],
[
"pompous",
"pompous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɒnˈtɪf.ɪ.keɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔnˈtɪf.ə.keɪt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔnˈtɪf.ɪ.keɪt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pontificate.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/En-us-pontificate.ogg/En-us-pontificate.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-us-pontificate.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "preside as a bishop",
"word": "pontifier"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "preside as a bishop",
"word": "pontifikál"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "preside as a bishop",
"word": "pontificare"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "preside as a bishop",
"word": "pontificar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "act like a pontiff",
"word": "orakelen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "act like a pontiff",
"word": "pontifier"
},
{
"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"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "orakelen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "saarnata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "pontifier"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "kinyilatkoztat"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "pontificare"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner",
"word": "sentar cátedra"
}
],
"word": "pontificate"
}
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