past perfect (pastperfekt)

and n. Pluperfect. The past - perfect is to describe an action as completed at a past moment. The Academy, Nov. 23, 1889, p. 343. 2. Descriptive of the life of shepherds; treating of rustic life: as, a pastoral poem.-3. Of or pertaining to a pastor or his office, dignity, duties, etc.; relating to the cure of souls: as, the pas toral care of a church; a pastoral visit; pastoral pastront, n. An obsolete form of pastern. Pals work. Pastoral charge. ( a ) The church and congrega- grave. tion committed to the of pastor. (b) In churches the Presbyterian and Congregational orders, the addre pastry (pas'tri), n. [ tion or installation. - Pastoral epistles. See epistle. Pastoral flute, a shepherds' pipe. - Pastoral letter, a letter addre ed, in a pastoral capacity, by a bishop to the clergy or to the laity, or to both, or by an ecclesiastical body, as a synod or a House of Bishops. - Pastoral staff. See staff. - Pastoral theology, that branch of theology which treats of the personal and official duties of pastors, in distinction from systematic theology, which treats of religious doctrines. - Pastoral work, the work of a pastor in personal intercourse with his parishioners. = Syn. 1 and 2. Rustic, Bucolic, etc. See rural. II. n. 1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds, or a poem in which the characters are shepherds or shepherde es; in general, any poem the subject of which is the country or a country life; a bucolic. A pastoral is a poem in which any action or pa ion is represented by its effects on a country life. Johnson. 2. Any work of art of which the subject rural. Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: cold Pastoral! is Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, v. 3. In music, same as pastorale. The pretty little personages of the pastoral ... dance their loves to a minuet-tune played on a bird-organ. Thackeray, English Humorists, Prior, Gay, and Pope. IMG:content-2443.png:[blocks in formation] The raspberry jam coyly withdrew itself lattice-work of pastry . Dickens , Martin Chuzzlewit, xii. Vermicelli, and other kinds of pastry , denoted the influence of Persian art on the kitchen. Palgrave , Central and Eastern Arabia, xiii. pastry-cook (pās'tri-kük), n. 1. One whose occupation is the making of pastry.-2. In England, one who keeps a restaurant. pastry-man (pas'tri-man), n. A pastry-cook. pastry-schoolt (pās'tri-sköl), n. A school of cookery. Add is on. To all Young Ladies at Edw. Kidder's Pastry School in little Lincoln's Inn Fields are taught all Sorts of Pastry and Cookery, Dutch hollow works, and Butter Works, on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays in the Afternoon. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [L. 24. 4. A pastoral letter or addre .- 5t. A sheppasturability (pas tur-a-bil'i-ti), n. [ Poveralle and pastorelles pa ede one aftyre With porkes to pasture at the price zates. able + -ity (see- bility ).] Capability of affording pasture; productivene or power of production of such vegetation as supplies food to grazing cattle and flocks. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3121. pastorale (pas-tō-räʻle), n. [It., = E. pastoral : see pastoral .] In music : (a) A variety of opera arability or pasturability of the land. or cantata in which idyllic or rustic scenes predominate, the dramatic interest usually being slight. The name is sometimes extended to an instrumental work of similar character. (b) A vocal or instrumental piece in triple rhythm, often with a drone-ba , in which a studied simplicity or an actual imitation of rustic sounds suggests pastoral life and its emotions. (c) Same as pastourelle. pastoralism (pas'tor-al-izm), n. [ Still it [a close-set wooden paling] is significative of A Domesday hide, which one of our latest archæologists with good reason maintains is variable according to the Nation , Aug. 7, 1879, p. 96. [ pasture + pasturable (pas tur-a-bl), a . -able.] Fit for pasture. Rees. pasturage (pas'tūr-āj), n. [OF. pasturage , F. pâturage , pasturage, pasturer , pasture: see pasture, v.] 1. The busine of feeding or graz- ing cattle; pastoral occupation.-2. Grazing- ground; land appropriated to grazing. Above all things, good policy is to be used, that the treasures and moneys in a State be not gathered into few hands.. This is done chiefly by suppre ing, or, at the least, keeping a strait hand upon, the devouring trades of usury, engro ing great pasturages , and the like. Bacon, Seditions and Troubles. pleasant parks, and well-kept field walks, and herds of 3. Gra on which cattle or flocks feed. deer, and other such aristocratic pastoralisms. Ruskin. pastoralize (pas'tor-al-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. pastorali zed, ppr. pastorali zing. [ Aurora Leigh, iii. pastorally (pas'tor-al-i), adv. [ -ly2.] 1. In a pastoral or rural manner.-2. In the manner of a pastor.