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801 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONGREGATIONALIST.1 (Noah Webster)

CONGREGATIONALIST, n. One who belongs to a congregational church or society; one who holds to the independence of each congregation or church of Christians, in the right of electing a pastor, and in governing the church.

802 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONSOCIATE.5 (Noah Webster)

3. To unite in an assembly or convention, as pastors and messengers or delegates of churches.

803 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONSOCIATE.8 (Noah Webster)

2. To unite, or meet in a body; to form a consociation of pastors and messengers.

804 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONSOCIATION.3 (Noah Webster)

2. Fellowship or union of churches by their pastors and delegates; a meeting of the pastors and delegates of a number of congregational churches, for aiding and supporting each other, and forming an advisory council in ecclesiastical affairs.

805 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROOK.3 (Noah Webster)

2. A shepherd staff, curving at the end; a pastoral staff. When used by a bishop or abbot, it is called a crosier.

806 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROSIER.2 (Noah Webster)

… or pastoral staff, a symbol of pastoral authority and care. It consists of a gold or silver staff, crooked at the top, and is carried occasionally before bishops …

807 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIVINE.13 (Noah Webster)

The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition, personal sanctity, and diligence in the pastoral office.

808 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ECLOGUE.1 (Noah Webster)

… , a pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other, as the eclogues of Virgil; or it is a little elegant composition in …

809 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELDER.9 (Noah Webster)

… apostles, pastors, teachers, presbyters, bishops or overseers. Peter and John call themselves elders. The first councils of christians were called presbyteria …

810 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELDER.10 (Noah Webster)

In the modern presbyterian churches, elders are officers who, with the pastors or ministers and deacons, compose the consistories or kirk-sessions, with authority to inspect and regulate matters of religion and discipline.

811 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELDER.11 (Noah Webster)

In the first churches of New England, the pastors or ministers were called elders or teaching elders.

812 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOMILETIC.3 (Noah Webster)

… called pastoral theology.

813 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IDYL.2 (Noah Webster)

A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as the idyls of Theocritus.

814 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INSTALL.1 (Noah Webster)

… particular pastoral charge; in England, to induct a dean, prebendary or other ecclesiastical dignitary into possession of the church to which he belongs …

815 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LABOR.27 (Noah Webster)

9. To perform the duties of the pastoral office. 1 Timothy 5:17 .

816 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LABORIOUS.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Using exertion; employing labor; diligent in work or service; assiduous; used of persons; as a laborious husbandman or mechanic; a laborious minister or pastor.

817 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MADRIGAL.2 (Noah Webster)

… a pastoral poem, containing a certain number of free unequal verses, not confined to the scrupulous regularity of a sonnet or the subtilty of the epigram …

818 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MINISTER.8 (Noah Webster)

5. One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church, duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments. Ephesians 3:7 .

819 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOMADIC.1 (Noah Webster)

NOMADIC, a. Pastoral; subsisting by the tending of cattle, and wandering for the sake of pasturage; as the nomadic tribes of Asia.

820 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOMADIZING.1 (Noah Webster)

NOMADIZING, ppr. Leading a pastoral life and wandering or removing from place to place for the sake of finding pasture.