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pastor

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Pastor \Pas"tor\, n. [L., fr. pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. Cf. Pabulum , Pasture , Food .] A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds. A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish. (Zo["o]l.) ...

Usage examples of pastor.

The sobs which interrupted the short and simple allocution which the pastor made to his flock overcame him so much that he stopped and said no more, except to invite all present to fervent prayer.

That was how our neighbors talked, and the beer truck drivers, shipyard workers, Brosen fishermen, the women who worked in the Amada margarine factory, housemaids, marketwomen on Saturday, garbage collectors on Tuesday, they all yapped their words querulously, and even the schoolteachers yapped, though in a more refined way, and the postal and police officials, and on Sunday the pastor in the pulpit.

Her sensations probably resolved themselves into an excess of admiration for the pastor in his new character of a denouncer of detected guilt and champion of imperiled innocence, added to which was a vague desire to lanch her own anathema maranatha at Royston Keene.

The members of session were highly offended that any member of the church should have so far misregarded his pastor and provoked him to ire, and therefore ordered him to be cited to appear before them the following day.

I called in a couple of my Pentecostal pastor friends and asked what the real problem was.

We dined merrily together, then we played at cards, and in the evening we finished reading the Pastor Fido.

Pastor Chabrand spoke with much feeling on the influence of the Holy Spirit, the gradual operation of the Spirit in the secret of the soul, and the preciousness of dwelling in Christ, as the branch in the vine, in order to bear fruit.

Deacon, cordially shaking the proffered hand, while he accompanied his pastor to the street door.

The leaders of the Church Federation proposed an eminent divine, Pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh.

The self-anointed pastor of the First Resurrectionist Maritime Assembly for God was skeptical.

Tubb was a man of over seventy, a devoted pastor with a gift of revivalist eloquence, but not generally considered very strong in the head.

Furst, Rosselmann the Pastor, Petermann the Sacrist, Kuoni the Shepherd, Werni the Huntsman, Ruodi the Fisherman, and five other countrymen, thirty-three in all, advance and take their places round the fire.

Moreover, the pastor at Us funeral had been an Anglican, not a Lutheran as was the minister who performed the final rites for the Spangler family.

Pastor Sweetwood rose to tell us of the fascinating things she was going to teach us to do.

Then, when Pastor Sweetwood announced they would both pass among us to be formally introduced, I stood and asked to be excused.