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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He appoints a pontifical commission to conduct the administrative affairs of the state.
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It became a congregation of pontifical right.
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Now Broussac had an enemy - a Master François Ferrebourg, a priest, bachelor of arts, and pontifical notary.
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There is no reason to suspect Tribonian of pontifical predilections, so it is hard to suppose that this is an interpolation.
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We saw earlier how such explanations of inflation were greeted with pontifical disdain by monetarists.