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841 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.

842 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 …

843 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 .

844 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.

845 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.

846 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 …

847 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORDAINED.1 (Noah Webster)

ORDAINED, pp. Appointed; instituted; established; invested with ministerial or pastoral functions; settled.

848 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORDAINING.1 (Noah Webster)

ORDAINING, ppr. Appointing; establishing; investing with sacerdotal or pastoral functions.

849 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 …

850 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.

851 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTOR.1 (Noah Webster)

PASTOR, n. [L. from pasco, pastum, to feed.]

852 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.1 (Noah Webster)

PASTORAL, a. [L. pastoralis.] Pertaining to shepherds; as a pastoral life; pastoral manners.

853 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Descriptive of the life of shepherds; as a pastoral poem.

854 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.

855 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORAL.4 (Noah Webster)

Piety is the life and soul of pastoral fidelity.

856 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.

857 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.

858 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORATE.1 (Noah Webster)

PASTORATE, n. The office, state or jurisdiction of a spiritual pastor.

859 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORLIKE.1 (Noah Webster)

PASTORLIKE, PASTORLY, a. Becoming a pastor.

860 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASTORSHIP.1 (Noah Webster)

PASTORSHIP, n. The office or rank of pastor.