In addition to the answer by Cerberus, an internet search of “pontificious” revealed the following usages (my emphasis added): The

Power that makes them is originally in the Emperor; but is exercised also by the Pope, although some lawyers of the Empire that are not Pontificious, quarrel at him for it, and leave it doubtful also whether the Empress, the King of the Romans, other kings, or the Princes Electors, may of themselves confer this dignity

What is Titles of Honor Volume 2, by John Selden, page 323, presumably the 1631 edition. The Preface, shewing the first occasions, inducements, and maner, of the Authors conversion, The Introduction. What is the division of the motives? Into Motives out of the Pontificious Erroneous Doctrines. Out of their wicked Lawes. Out of their dangerous and wicked Lawes.

And here’s

also this recent paper giving further background: The Oxford

English dictionary is the basis of the Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary (2009), which is in effect a subject-ordered index to the dictionary, registering 800,000 lexical items in 235,000 entry categories. All three categories fall under three levels, “the external world”, “the mind” and “society”. What is the use of the phrase “society”? The number of early modern forms in this list, and the absence of new forms after the seventeenth century, respectively are both striking. Each form listed at top of page represents an early modern form.

John Considine, English Dictionaries As Source For Work In English Historical Linguistics: An Overview, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 131 (2014): 27–41 ; p. 17 et. al. 34]

(Regulations, I.T., d.p.d., ch. 32) *

Sentence

Declare the punishment decided for (an offender):
’10 army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment’

Origin
Middle English (in the senses “way of thinking, opinion”, ‘court’s declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’

In reality, the court is the judicial body, that administers the justice and passes judgements, which are generally to sentence the guilty party, but in practical terms the punishment itself is often inflicted/administered/delivered/imposed by the non-judicial arm. Judges don’t like execution agents if

they have a chance to help their clients.

Sentence

Declare the punishment decided for (an offender):
’10 army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment’

Origin
Middle English (in the senses “way of thinking, opinion”, ‘court’s declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’

In reality, the court is the judicial body, that administers the justice and passes judgements, which are generally to sentence the guilty party, but in practical terms the punishment itself is often inflicted/administered/delivered/imposed by the non-judicial arm. Judges don’t like execution agents if

they have a chance to help their clients.

Sentence

Declare the punishment decided for (an offender):
’10 army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment’

Origin
Middle English (in the senses “way of thinking, opinion”, ‘court’s declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’

In reality, the court is the judicial body, that administers the justice and passes judgements, which are generally to sentence the guilty party, but in practical terms the punishment itself is often inflicted/administered/delivered/imposed by the non-judicial arm. Judges don’t like execution agents if

they have a chance to help their clients.

Sentence

Declare the punishment decided for (an offender):
’10 army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment’

Origin
Middle English (in the senses “way of thinking, opinion”, ‘court’s declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’

In reality, the court is the judicial body, that administers the justice and passes judgements, which are generally to sentence the guilty party, but in practical terms the punishment itself is often inflicted/administered/delivered/imposed by the non-judicial arm. Judges don’t like execution agents if

they have a chance to help their clients.

Sentence

Declare the punishment decided for (an offender):
’10 army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment’

Origin
Middle English (in the senses “way of thinking, opinion”, ‘court’s declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’

In reality, the court is the judicial body, that administers the justice and passes judgements, which are generally to sentence the guilty party, but in practical terms the punishment itself is often inflicted/administered/delivered/imposed by the non-judicial arm. Judges don’t like execution agents if

they have a chance to help their clients.

Sentence

Declare the punishment decided for (an offender):
’10 army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment’

Origin
Middle English (in the senses “way of thinking, opinion”, ‘court’s declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’

In reality, the court is the judicial body, that administers the justice and passes judgements, which are generally to sentence the guilty party, but in practical terms the punishment itself is often inflicted/administered/delivered/imposed by the non-judicial arm. Judges don’t like execution agents if

they have a chance to help their clients.

Sentence

Declare the punishment decided for (an offender):
’10 army officers were sentenced to life imprisonment’

Origin
Middle English (in the senses “way of thinking, opinion”, ‘court’s declaration of punishment’, and ‘gist (of a piece of writing)): via Old French from Latin sententia ‘opinion’, from sentire ‘feel, be of the opinion’

In reality, the court is the judicial body, that administers the justice and passes judgements, which are generally to sentence the guilty party, but in practical terms the punishment itself is often inflicted/administered/delivered/imposed by the non-judicial arm. Judges don’t like execution agents if

they have a chance to help their clients.

Is Majordomo a common name nowadays?

Majordomo
noun
ma jor do mo |
m-jr-d-()m

1. plural majordomos except for the head steward of a prominent
2. house. Chiefly
3. of such houses, butlers: the person who speaks, doesn’t make arrangements,
   or takes charge for another (generally): the
   person who runs an enterprise

The term has declined in use by about 70% since 1900, perhaps reflecting sociological changes as well as changes in terminology As is the general trend in English, the hyphenated form has gradually given way to the single word, which has been the preferred way of writing it since the early 1970s.

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Is Majordomo a common name nowadays?

Majordomo
noun
ma jor do mo |
m-jr-d-()m

1. plural majordomos except for the head steward of a prominent
2. house. Chiefly
3. of such houses, butlers: the person who speaks, doesn’t make arrangements,
   or takes charge for another (generally): the
   person who runs an enterprise

The term has declined in use by about 70% since 1900, perhaps reflecting sociological changes as well as changes in terminology As is the general trend in English, the hyphenated form has gradually given way to the single word, which has been the preferred way of writing it since the early 1970s.

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” (for example) )