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Constantinople was to ring out with bells, instead of the cry of the Muezzins; and the Imaum, coming out to see what was the matter, was to be encountered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in pontificalibus, performing Cathedral service in the church of St. Sophia, which was to finish the business.
Melmoth the Wanderer 2004
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On Christmas – Eve, I went to the cathedral at midnight, to hear high mass celebrated by the new bishop of Nice, in pontificalibus, and stood near two hours uncovered in a cold gallery, without having any cause in the sequel to repent of my curiosity.
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When the day of the Inauguration is come, there resort thither, first the Patriarch with the Metropolitanes, arch-bishops, bishops, abbots and priors, al richly clad in their pontificalibus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Castilliers, the very same who never cared to hump his chambermaids but when he was in pontificalibus.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Oudart, in pontificalibus, takes them both by their hands, asketh them their will, giveth them the matrimonial blessing, and was very liberal of holy water.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Castilliers, the very same who never cared to hump his chambermaids but when he was in pontificalibus.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Oudart, in pontificalibus, takes them both by their hands, asketh them their will, giveth them the matrimonial blessing, and was very liberal of holy water.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If he died during the time of his prelacy, he was buried _in pontificalibus_.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Augustine, kneeling to confess, has an eye to the picturesque, and does it in _pontificalibus_, resolved that Domina Grundy shall think all the better of him.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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On a blue slab under a triple canopy, the centre pediment of which has I.H.S., and its point the Deity and Christ, is a brass figure of a bishop _in pontificalibus_, mitre and gloves; his right hand holds on his breast an open book inscribed --
juliefa commented on the word pontificalibus
the attire or vestments of one's office
"the bishop received him in pontificalibus"
MW
June 7, 2011