pastor (pastor)

[ pastor or minister of a church (the shepherd of the flock), Gaffray is become a monke for all hys lore, Neuer trowed man for to se that houre A wolfe to become an herdly past our ! Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5117. The hopele shepherd Strephon.. called his friendly rival the pastor Claius unto him. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, i. 2. A minister or clergyman installed according to the usages of some Christian denomination in charge of a specific church or body of churches. The word is often used to denote a clergyman considered with reference to his care of his people, as in visiting the sick, etc., rather than with reference to his office as preacher. The term shepherd (Latin pastor ) is applied in the New Testament to Christ (John x. 11; 1 Pet. ii. 25); thence it was transferred to the bishops and other clergy generally of the Christian church; in later usage it is ordinarily confined to a minister ordained over a local church. The sentence was denounced by the pastor , matter of manners belonging properly to his place. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 310. The fact is that the man who loomed to such gigantic spiritual stature in the pulpit was not a great pastor . Josiah Quincy, Figures of the Past, p. 309. Asa The minister is a pastor as well as a preacher. preacher he speaks to the people collectively; but as a pastor he watches over them individually. Bp. Simpson , Lectures on Preaching, viii. 3. [ cap. ] [NL.] A genus of sturnoid pa erine birds having the head crested and the plumage in part rose colored, as P. rose us of Europe; the rose starlings: so named from a ociation with cattle, like cow-bird, etc. Also called Thremmaphi lus, Gracula, and by other names.-4. A bird of this genus. IMG:content-2441.png:[blocks in formation] 4322 [Rare.] pasture pastoral (pas'tor-al), a. and n. [ME. pastorel, pastor ling (pas'tor-ling), n. [ IMG:content-2442.jpg:[blocks in formation]