pontificated in English

verb

1

(in the Roman Catholic Church) officiate as bishop, especially at Mass.

On the feast itself he pontificated at Mass and preached three times to the people.

2

express one's opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous and dogmatic.

he was pontificating about art and history

synonyms: hold forth, expound, declaim, preach, lay down the law, sound off, dogmatize, sermonize, moralize, lecture, preachify, mouth off, bloviate

verb

hold forth, expound, declaim, preach, lay down the law, sound off, dogmatize, sermonize, moralize, lecture, preachify, mouth off, bloviate

Use "pontificated" in a sentence

1. Synonyms for Commentated include analysed, analyzed, described, discussed, explained, expounded, interpreted, pontificated, reported and reviewed

2. They have pontificated (often at Blovious length) about the potential symbolism of “it” (Morrow), but no one (as of yet) has focused their analysis on how the film transforms Jay into both object of surveillance and a surveilling subject