Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word pontificate. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: papacy, pontificate(verb) the government of the Roman Catholic Church. pontificate(verb) administer a pontifical office.
Opera star Luciano Pavarotti dies of cancer aged 71. Last updated at 19:50 06 September 2007. A weeping crowd has besieged the home of Luciano Pavarotti to pay tribute to the opera singer who died today aged 71. Pavarotti, modern-day opera's greatest star, died just before 5am following a long fight against pancreatic cancer.
He was 24 years old. The cause of the accident was never established- it was initially put down to black ice on the road, though some people suspected that the bus driver may have been drunk. Cliff Burton's body was flown back to the USA, and he was buried in San Francisco. He died on 27th September 1986- he was killed when Metallica's tour bus crashed during the second leg of their <i>Damage Inc.</i> tour in Southern Sweden. They were travelling through Sweden's Ljungby Municipality near the town of Dorap, when the bus skidded late at night and ended up on it's side on a grass verge.