Noun:

Pontifex,

pontifex தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

இவ்வாறு, "திருத்தந்தை" (இலத்தீன்: Pontifex - ஆங்கிலம்: Pontiff - bridge builder) என்னும் தம் பெயருக்கு ஏற்ப நடந்துகாட்டினார்.

|கிரேக்கத்திலிருந்தும் எபிரேயத்திலிருந்தும் விவிலியத்தை இலத்தீனில் மொழிபெயர்க்கும் பொறுப்பைப் புனித ஜெரோம் (எரோணிமுசு) என்பவரிடம் ஒப்படைத்தார்; 382இல் உரோமைச் சங்கத்தைக் கூட்டினார்; பிற சமய மரபில் இருந்த "பெருந்தலைவர்" (Pontifex Maximus) என்னும் பட்டத்தைத் திருத்தந்தையருக்கு அளிக்கும்படி கிரேசியன் பேரரசனிடம் வேண்டிப் பெற்றார்.

அதை அடியொற்றி, திருத்தந்தை "Summus Pontifex" (Supreme Pontiff) என்றும் பெயர் கொண்டுள்ளார்.

உரோமைப் பேரரசனுக்கு "Pontifex" (Pontiff) என்றொரு பட்டம் இருந்தது.

pontifex's Usage Examples:

Both consuls were anxious to obtain the command against him; Crassus was pontifex maximus, and Flaccus a flamen of Mars.

The immense authority of the college centred in the pontifex maximus, the other pontifices forming his consilium or advising body.

Ancus Marcius is merely a duplicate of Numa, as is shown by his second name, Numa Marcius, the confidant and pontifex of Numa, being no other than Numa Pompilius himself, represented as priest.

2 3); and in public sacrifices it was not only sprinkled on the head of the victim by the pontifex before its slaughter, and afterwards mingled with its blood, but was also thrown upon the flames over which it was roasted.

By these means, and by the lavishness of his expenditure on public entertainments as aedile, he acquired such popularity with the plebs that he was elected pontifex maximus in 63 B.

Crassus accordingly proceeded to Asia, although in doing so he violated the rule which forbade the pontifex maximus to leave Italy.

The flamens were subject to the pontifex maximus, and were consecrated to the service of some particular deity.

He prohibited heathen worship at Rome; refused to wear the insignia of the pontifex maximus as unbefitting a Christian;.

For the earlier period their authorities were state and family records - above all, the annales maximi (or annales pontificum), the official chronicle of Rome, in which the notable occurrences of each year from the foundation of the city were set down by the pontifex maximus.

Included in the collegium were also the rex sacrorum, the flamines, three assistant pontifices (minores), and the vestal virgins, who were all chosen by the pontifex maximus.

40) calls the chief priest summits pontifex, probably the pater patrum who had general supervision of all the initiates in one city, and states that he could marry but once.

Synonyms:

priest,

Antonyms:

layman,