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US
/ˈpæstɝ/
]
[ UK /pˈɑːstɐ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːstɐ/ ]
NOUN
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a person authorized to conduct religious worship
clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches
How To Use pastor In A Sentence
- Anybody who has ever been on a North Queensland pastoral lease knows that you can go 20, 30, 40 miles day after day and all you will see is a few brumbies and some wild pigs; you will not see any cattle anywhere.
- Other areas praised by the Ofsted team include her leadership as head, and the pastoral care of pupils.
- Their pastorals, both published in 1651, offered choices to Royalists in the aftermath of the crushing defeat at Worcester.
- The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.
- The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
- English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
- Get to know your senior pastor: take some cues from courting. Christianity Today
- * I wonder how much of this has to do with their positions (obviously Edwards had a mind like few others, but one has to take into account also that he husbanded and cultivated that gift responsibly): Edwards was a public man in his capacity as a pastor; can it be said that Whitefield was only a pastor in his capacity as a public man? from → Observations The Sage of Northampton « Unknowing
- Relying on their well-established formula of eerie melodies, pastoral soundscapes, babbling children and rhythmic clamour, their sophomore effort rings true.
- Besides this diocesan system of priestly pastoral care, there are two other administrative bodies of crucial importance.