Hyphenation of pontificates

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word pontificates? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

pon-tif-i-cates

Definitions of pontificates:

1.	The government of the Roman Catholic Church
2.	Administer a pontifical office
3.	Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner The new professor always pontificates

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Hyphenator

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