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821 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUCOLIC.2 (Noah Webster)
Pastoral; relating to country affairs and to a shepherd’s life and occupation.
822 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUCOLIC.3 (Noah Webster)
BUCOLIC, n. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners and occupation of shepherds; as the bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
823 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUCOLIC.4 (Noah Webster)
1. A writer of pastorals.
824 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHURCH.10 (Noah Webster)
… same pastor; in distinction from those who belong to the same parish, or ecclesiastical society, but have made no profession of their faith.
825 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMMENDAM.1 (Noah Webster)
COMMENDAM, n. In ecclesiastical law, in England, a benefice or living commended, by the king or head of the church, to the care of a clerk, to hold till a proper pastor is provided. This may be temporary or perpetual.
826 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMMENDAM.2 (Noah Webster)
The trust or administration of the revenues of a benefice given to a layman, to hold as a deposit for six months in order to repairs, etc., or to an ecclesiastic, to perform the pastoral duties, till the benefice is provided with a regular incumbent.
827 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONGREGATIONAL.1 (Noah Webster)
… own pastor and govern itself; as a congregational church, or mode of worship.
828 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.
829 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.
830 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.
831 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.
832 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.
833 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 …
834 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.
835 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 …
836 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 …
837 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.
838 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.
839 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOMILETIC.3 (Noah Webster)
… called pastoral theology.
840 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IDYL.2 (Noah Webster)
A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as the idyls of Theocritus.