Noun:

Pontifex,

pontifices 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.

pontifices's Usage Examples:

Fontanini, Codex Constitutionum quas summi pontifices ediderunt in solemni canonizatione sanctorum (Rome, 1729, a collection of original documents); Pr.

When Lucullus assumed the command of the Roman troops in Asia, Caesar returned to Rome, to find that he had been elected to a seat on the college of pontifices left vacant by the death of his uncle, C.

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

D'Arbois de Jubainville maintains that in Gaul the three classes of druids, vates and gutuatri, corresponded more or less to the pontifices, augurs and flamens of ancient Rome.

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.

In Siena he wrote his Actio in pontifices romanos et eorum asseclas, a vigorous indictment, in twenty "testimonia," against what he now believed to be the fundamental error of the Roman Church in subordinating Scripture to tradition, as well as against various particular doctrines, such as that of ' P.

Under the empire, however, we hear of a regular collegium of sixty haruspices; and Claudius is said to have tried to restore the art and put it under the control of the pontifices.

On the former date, the flamen Quirinalis, assisted by the vestals, offered sacrifice, and the pontifices presided at horse and chariot races in the circus.

He instituted the flamens (sacred priests) of Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus; the virgins of Vesta, to keep the sacred fire burning on the hearth of the city; the Salii, to guard the shield that fell from heaven; the pontifices and augurs, to arrange the rites and interpret the will of the gods; he also divided the handicraftsmen into nine gilds.

Synonyms:

priest,

Antonyms:

layman,