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pontificate noun. LME.
[Latin pontificatus, from PONTIFEX: see -ATE1.]
The office, state, or dignity of a pontiff or pontifex; the period during which a person holds this office.
A. N. Wilson In the closing years of the pontificate of Leo XIII.
Also pontificacy noun E16-L18.