0 to speak or write and give your opinion about something as if you knew everything about it and as if only your opinion was correct:
1 the period of office of a pope (= leader of the Roman Catholic Church):
2 to speak in an important manner as if only your opinion was correct:
Do we have to wait until some learned organisation pontificates on it and sends us a report before we do anything about it?
I rejoice that this has not been a debate in which we have pontificated or sermonised.
I am not pontificating on the matter at all.
Nobody has got as far as that, and we on this side are not pontificating.
Then he could do something useful instead of pontificating to empty churches and the rest of us about how people should spend their hard-earned money.
Too much time is spent in pontificating, in psuedo-psychology.
We all have known fellow-trustees who waste valuable time pontificating on subjects that they know little about.
He should look at the problem before pontificating upon it.
