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pontificare, ~ari [ML] 1 to serve as bishop; b (dep.); c (w. dir. obj.) to preside over as bishop. iste Patricius ‥ in Hebernia extitit natus, qui ibidem ~avit circa annum Domini octingentesimum quinquagesimum W. Malm. Glast. 14 [in marg. ed. Hearne]; iste Laurentius abbati Jocelino ~anti successit in regimine Melrosensis ecclesie J. Furness Walth. 126; †1093 (12c) in archiepiscopatu Cantuariensi ~ante Anselmo et in Eboracensi ~ante Thoma Ch. Chester 3; sancta salutavit crux Christi pontificantem Garl. Mor. Scol. 303; Petrus ‥ incepit presidere in partibus orientis, sc. circa Jerusalem, ubi iiij annis ~avit Eul. Hist. I 89; vocatur Wynchestre a quodam Wyne ibidem ~ante Ib. II 150. b dicitur pontifex quasi pontem, i. iter aliis faciens et inde ‥ ~or, -aris Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 456; sanctus Eustachius Turoni ~atur R. Niger Chr. II 130. c Adelwulfus ‥ de clericatu translatus ad regnum, concessu Leonis papae, ~avit eum feliciter H. Hunt. HA IX p. xxvi; regnante in Anglia Johanne, Henrici regis secundi filio, ~ante sedem Cantuarie Huberto Canon. G. Sempr. f. 106. 2 to act as pope, hold the papacy. ~ante ‥ domno Sergio papa Bede HE V 8 p. 294; Cenred ‥ monachus ibi factus, Constantino ~ante usque ad diem permansit ultimum H. Hunt. HA IV 7; regnante Henrico secundo in Anglia, Malcolmo in Scotia, ~ante papa Adriano Angligena J. Furness Walth. 91; Clemens ‥ cogit Linum et Cletum ante se ~are [Eul. Hist. I 169: ~are [v. l. ~ari]] Oxnead Chr. Min. 418; ~ante apostolico viro ‥ Sergio papa Elmh. Cant. 256. 3 to make (someone) a bishop. quis hodie facit sicut plerique fecere sanctorum qui se in cavernis foveisque, ne ~arentur, absconderunt? P. Blois Ep. Sup. 5. 8; post hunc promeruit Lanfrancus ~ari Leg. Ant. Lond. 222; s1258 si ~ent te Ann. Lond. 50. 4 make (a place) a bishopric, raise to a bishop’s see. Wettelmus in Candida Casa, que nuper ~ata ipsum primum habet antistitem H. Hunt. HA IV 14; Arelatensem petit urbem pontificari Elmh. Cant. 91. 5 (fig.) to act as a bridge (in quot., of BVM). propellit pelagus, mare mitigat, equor adequat, / pontificat ponto, portus et aura suis Garl. Epith. VII 282.

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