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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.