Usually means: Bridge-builder, high priest, Roman title.
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  3. pontifex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Pontifex, pontifex: Wordnik
  7. pontifex: Wiktionary
  8. pontifex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pontifex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. Pontifex, pontifex: Dictionary.com
  12. pontifex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Pontifex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pontifex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pontifex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pontifex: Rhymezone
  17. Pontifex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pontifex: FreeDictionary.org
  19. pontifex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pontifex: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pontifex)

▸ noun:  (historical) A pontiff, or high priest, in Ancient Rome.

Similar:
pontiff, pope, fetial, auspex, father, patriarch, regionarius, prothonotary, conscript father, protopapas, more...

Opposite:
layperson, commoner, non-clergy

Phrases:
Pontifex maximus, more...

Adjectives:
old, plain, dear, supreme, great, chief, young, numquid, imperial, papist, unmerciful
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Similar:
pontiff, pope, fetial, auspex, father, patriarch, regionarius, prothonotary, conscript father, protopapas, more...

Opposite:
layperson, commoner, non-clergy

Phrases:
Pontifex maximus, more...

Adjectives:
old, plain, dear, supreme, great, chief, young, numquid, imperial, papist, unmerciful



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