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- Pastoral - a. - Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
- Pastoral - a. - Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.
- Pastoral - n. - A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
- Pastoral - n. - A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
- Pastoral - n. - A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
- Pastorale - n. - A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.
- Pastorale - n. - A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
- Pastorally - adv. - In a pastoral or rural manner.
- Pastorally - adv. - In the manner of a pastor.
- Tragi-comi-pastoral - a. - Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry.
- Drone - v. i. - A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition.
- Crosier - n. - The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God.
- Crook - n. - A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
- Eclogue - n. - A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.
- Heritage - a. - A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.
- Bergeret - n. - A pastoral song.
- Settle - n. - To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
- Amaryllis - n. - A pastoral sweetheart.
- Pastorally - adv. - In a pastoral or rural manner.
- Idyl - n. - A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.
- Pastoral - a. - Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.
- Reed - n. - A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
- Madrigal - n. - A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.
- Cossack - n. - One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.
- Oboe - n. - One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
- Bucolic - n. - A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
- Pastoral - a. - Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
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