1. pontificate - Noun
2. pontificate - Verb
The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.
The term of office of a pontiff.
To perform the duty of a pontiff.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people. Harriet Harman
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. Rita Dove
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. Harold Evans
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Roger Moore
Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. Rowan Atkinson
The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront. Joni Madraiwiwi