What's the difference between pontifex and pontificate?
Pontifex
Definition:
(n.) A high priest; a pontiff.
Example Sentences:
(1) In case you're wondering though, the Pope's @Pontifex Twitter Account Is not shutting down... or at least, not yet.
(2) Within hours of the announcement, the Twitter username @pontifex_ln had nearly 2,000 followers.
(3) One of Zmuda's former students summed up the growing discomfort among some Catholics regarding the unequal treatment of gay people in a tweet to his holiness Pope Francis , or as he is better known on twitter, @Pontifex: Hey big guy, we need you over here in Washington.
(4) #ecbguesses May 2, 2013 And a couple of more frivolous ideas for what the ECB might call a new scheme to help small firms: Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) @ katie_martin_fx Better Outright Lending Liquidity On Credit Klaims May 2, 2013 Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) @ katie_martin_fx Warehouse Asset Short-Term European Official Funding for Term Instruments of Medium Enterprises May 2, 2013 Updated at 12.26pm BST 12.16pm BST The Pope tweets: Pope Francis (@Pontifex) My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed, often as a result of a self-centred mindset bent on profit at any cost.
(5) Such actions saw him voted person of the year by both Time magazine and the US gay and lesbian magazine The Advocate, while his Twitter account - @pontifex – has almost 3.8 million followers.
(6) retweet previous February 24, 2014 Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) Dear Holy Father @Pontifex , Sorry that I have caused havoc in your social media world.
(7) Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) Dear Holy Father @Pontifex , would you like to see @DarrenAronofsky film #NOAH ?
(8) Seriously though, #Noah the movie will fascinate you February 25, 2014 Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) Dear Holy Father @Pontifex @Pontifex_it @DarrenAronofsky #Noah film.
(9) Updated at 10.36pm GMT 10.21pm GMT The announcement by the official papal Twitter account has now been re-tweeted a good 65,000 times: Pontifex (@Pontifex) HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM March 13, 2013 10.18pm GMT A detail from a Reuters biographical sketch : Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) !
(10) In fourth place comes Francis's Twitter handle, @Pontifex.
(11) @BarackObama to @Pontifex : Forgive me father for I have spied.
(12) Yesterday, when @pontifex was showing up on my Twitter feed at a rather alarming rate, I expected the worst.
(13) Screening?The message of the film is powerful , fascinating , resonant February 24, 2014 Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) Holy Father @Pontifex , it would be my deepest pleasure to bring the @DarrenAronofsky film to you to screen.
Pontificate
Definition:
(n.) The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.
(n.) The term of office of a pontiff.
(v. i.) To perform the duty of a pontiff.
Example Sentences:
(1) Highlighting an excerpt of the interview, which Harri claimed was "implying the mayor is 'losing his touch' because he 'failed' to upstage the PM", he criticised the decision to allow Purnell to "pontificate without challenge, qualification or allowing us a right to reply" and described the author as someone who "knows no one in No 10".
(2) RDE: I wouldn't expect the head of Oxfam to subsist on gruel, but I'd like charity workers to see their jobs as vocations rather than a well-paid career providing both generous financial rewards and the opportunity to pontificate from the moral high ground.
(3) The group’s trip to Rome is designed to coincide with a workshop hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Tuesday called Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity, which will feature speeches by Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, and Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs.
(4) If she genuinely can't understand that, there is little point her pontificating on any of the minutiae of the free market system nor the political or economic world at large.
(5) But in a setback, the US embassy found that its closest ally on GM, Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the powerful Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the man who mostly represents the pope at the United Nations, had withdrawn his support for the US.
(6) The way western politicians and media have pontificated about Israel's onslaught on Gaza, you'd think it was facing an unprovoked attack from a well-armed foreign power.
(7) Emilio Sáenz-Francés, professor of history and international relations at Madrid’s Comillas Pontifical University, says Spain will suffer internally and externally as long as the political paralysis endures.
(8) Prime among these is Katie Hopkins, a former Apprentice contestant who now writes a column for the Sun and pontificates on daytime TV, appearing on the This Morning sofa as regularly as an untreated cold sore.
(9) In one of the longest, most passionate and sweeping speeches of his pontificate, the Argentine-born pope used his visit to Bolivia to ask forgiveness for the sins committed by the Roman Catholic church in its treatment of native Americans during what he called the “so-called conquest of America”.
(10) Emilio Sáenz-Francés, a professor of history and international relations at Madrid’s Comillas Pontifical University, said that while the central government may have succeeded in watering down Sunday’s vote, it had done little to address the underlying grassroots movement pushing for independence.
(11) The meeting was arranged by the Argentine head of the pontifical academy, Monsignor Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, a good friend of the pope’s.
(12) I’m here to talk about trade not to pontificate on other issues.
(13) But she says now that she'd been doing interviews all day, "then somehow, I started liking the sound of my own voice pontificating.
(14) But Guzmán Carriquiry, vice president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and a friend of the pope’s, suggested at a recent conference in Philadelphia that the pope would try to present a more nuanced understanding of the US, including in his discussion of economics.
(15) But she thought it might also indicate that the Vatican "may ... be pulling back due to concerns about ITF pressure to declassify records from the WWII-era pontificate of Pope Pius XII".
(16) The 77-year-old former archbishop of Buenos Aires will be the fifth pope to meet the Queen, who first visited the Vatican as Princess Elizabeth during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII.
(17) Any commentator who speaks of “Ireland” (26 counties thereof) gaining “independence” (sic) whole ignoring the fact that almost one million of its citizens are now trapped in a gerrymandered United Kingdom statelet in which they want no part of, nor ever wanted, shouldn’t be pontificating on Scottish independence .
(18) Fourteen-year-olds pontificating on this must be making the old field marshal turn in his grave, and this debate also perpetuates the myth that British soldiers were "lions led by donkeys", the idea that the brave ordinary Tommy was let down by the brandy-soaked toffs in charge.
(19) The big bang, which is today posited as the origin of the world, does not contradict the divine act of creation; rather, it requires it,” the pope said in an address to a meeting at the pontifical academy of sciences.
(20) The crowd of excitable young and young-ish people gathered to hear him pontificate believe what he’s saying, even if he doesn’t.