0 past simple and past participle of pontificate
1 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:
I rejoice that this has not been a debate in which we have pontificated or sermonised.
He pontificated about the rating system and seemed to labour under the illusion that only house owners pay rates.
I have pontificated about mobile phones on many occasions.
He has pontificated since the election.
Ministers have identified and pontificated on the problems.
Most of the intellectuals of his generation pontificated endlessly over dominoes in the morning and regrouped in the local bars at night.
Artists, writers, political radicals, and hobos pontificated, lectured, recited poetry, ranted, and raved.
