Pontifex is valid Scrabble Word

Is pontifex a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
20 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for PONTIFEX in dictionary:

NOUN:

(Latin) a chief priest, also PONTIFF
(in ancient Rome) a member of the principal college of priests.
(in ancient Rome) any of the senior members of the Pontifical College
A high priest; a pontiff.
a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an ancient Roman priest

Words related to PONTIFEX

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How to use PONTIFEX in a sentence

True, it was in reference to a spiritual matter, but emperors, from Caesar downwards, as Pontifex Maximus, had believed it their right and province to meddle in such matters.
Crassus, the consul and Pontifex Maximus, threatened to impose a fine upon Flaccus his colleague the priest of Mars, if he deserted the sacrifices.
If these are your thoughts, then are you really Marcus Lepidus the Pontifex Maximus, the great-grandson of Marcus Lepidus, Pontifex Maximus.
My own secret hope had been, that, by an Act of the Legislature, which that very season had changed Pontifex Parker to Charles Alfred Parker, Mr.
And he was appointed pontifex maximus, in spite of the fact that many others, Catulus most of all, were his rivals for the honor.
This practice was followed at regular periods, established by custom, but not for any such reason as his, and he himself, being pontifex, understood that fact.
He was at one time, when greatly involved in debt, and embarrassed in all his affairs, a candidate for a very high office, that of Pontifex Maximus, or sovereign pontiff.
Then Decius, recollecting a vision which had declared that a consul must devote himself for his country, called on Valerius, the Pontifex Maximus, to dedicate him.
As a high patrician by birth, he was Pontifex Maximus, or chief priest, and thus had to fix all the festival days in each year.
But even he was placed under the authority of the chief pontifex.

Licinius Crassus, the Pontifex Maximus, who could not, therefore, leave Italy.
Mucius Scaevola, the Pontifex Maximus and jurist, P.
He was allowed, however, to retain his property and the dignity of Pontifex Maximus.
Wilkes is a more conspicuous personage in modern story than the Pontifex Maximus of Rome.
Many of the recollections of his school life at Shrewsbury are reproduced for the school life of Ernest Pontifex at Roughborough in The Way of All Flesh, Dr.
The Pontifex slaughtered a sheep on the sacrificial altar, the oracle was consulted in a cave, and in a temple dedicated to the sun young priests kept up an ever-flaming fire.
He was invariably made also the Pontifex Maximus, or chief guardian of the religious interests of Rome.
No man, except the chief Pontifex, may set foot inside the shrine of the virgin goddess, who is attended by virgin priestesses.
Cicero quotes a dictum of a Pontifex Maximus that there was one religion of the poet, another of the philosopher, and another of the statesman.
The title of Pontifex Maximus gave way at length for those of Eternity, Divinity, and the like.
Constantine too did not dispense with the blasphemous titles of Eternity, Divinity, and Pontifex Maximus, as they had been given to his predecessors.

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