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821 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORDAIN.2 (Noah Webster)
… the pastoral office with the customary forms and solemnities; as, to ordain a minister of the gospel. In America, men are ordained over a particular church …
822 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORDAINED.1 (Noah Webster)
ORDAINED, pp. Appointed; instituted; established; invested with ministerial or pastoral functions; settled.
823 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORDAINING.1 (Noah Webster)
ORDAINING, ppr. Appointing; establishing; investing with sacerdotal or pastoral functions.
824 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORDINATION.5 (Noah Webster)
… with pastoral charge and authority; also, the act of conferring on a clergyman the powers of a settled minister of the gospel, without the charge or oversight …
825 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PARSONAGE.1 (Noah Webster)
PARSONAGE, n. In America, the glebe and house belonging to a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance of the incumbent or settled pastor of a church.
826 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTOR.1 (Noah Webster)
PASTOR, n. [L. from pasco, pastum, to feed.]
827 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.1 (Noah Webster)
PASTORAL, a. [L. pastoralis.] Pertaining to shepherds; as a pastoral life; pastoral manners.
828 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Descriptive of the life of shepherds; as a pastoral poem.
829 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as pastoral care or duties; a pastoral letter.
830 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.4 (Noah Webster)
Piety is the life and soul of pastoral fidelity.
831 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.5 (Noah Webster)
P`ASTORAL, n. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds, or a poem in imitation of the action of a shepherd, and in which the speakers take upon themselves the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
832 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.6 (Noah Webster)
A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life.
833 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORATE.1 (Noah Webster)
PASTORATE, n. The office, state or jurisdiction of a spiritual pastor.
834 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORLIKE.1 (Noah Webster)
PASTORLIKE, PASTORLY, a. Becoming a pastor.
835 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORSHIP.1 (Noah Webster)
PASTORSHIP, n. The office or rank of pastor.
836 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESBYTER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A priest; a person who has the pastoral charge of a particular church and congregation; called in the Saxon laws, mass-priest.
837 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESBYTERY.3 (Noah Webster)
… the pastors of churches within a certain district, and one ruling elder, a layman, from each parish, commissioned to represent the parish in conjunction with …
838 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REALIZE.8 (Noah Webster)
This allusion must have had enhanced strength and beauty to the eye of a nation extensively devoted to a pastoral life, and therefore realizing all its fine scenes and the tender emotions to which they gave birth.
839 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REGARD.9 (Noah Webster)
5. To esteem; to hold in respect and affection. The people regard their pastor, and treat him with great kindness. 2 Kings 3:14 .
840 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RENOWN.6 (Noah Webster)
A bard whom pilfer’d pastorals renown.