Crossword clues for pastoral
pastoral
- Former exam depicting rural life
- Finished vocal work depicting country life
- Rustic is also part crazy
- Rustic friend entertaining old Times proprietor
- Rustic friend embraces pioneering stateswoman
- Relating to country life
- Related to a clergy member's completed exam
- Prince of the Stars embracing love of country
- Phosphorus from the stars seen across old country
- Beethoven symphony in historic exam?
- History test suitable for a church minister?
- After test regarding the country …
- Beethoven symphony
- Like Beethoven's Symphony No. 6
- Like idyllic country life
- Symphony by Handel
- Suggestive of an idyll
- Of the simple life
- Nickname for Beethoven's Sixth
- Jesus Lizard song about a shepherding lifestyle?
- Beethoven's 6th symphony…
- Beethoven's Sixth
- Idyllic
- Bucolic
- Country
- Rustic
- Simple and serene
- A musical composition that evokes rural life
- A letter from a pastor to the congregation
- A literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
- Arcadian
- Of shepherds
- Beethoven's "___"
- Poem on country life
- Like the "simple" life
- Rural picture
- Ground patrols round a country
- Country’s history, not written down
- Exam no longer held in the country
- Ecclesiastical history exam
- Of country life
- Former exam relating to rural life
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pastoral \Pas"tor*al\, n.
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A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life.
--Rambler. (Mus.) 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.
--Moore (Encyc. of Music).(Eccl.) 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.
Pastoral \Pas"tor*al\, a. [L. pastoralis: cf. F. pastoral. See Pastor.]
Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
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Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.
Pastoral staff (Eccl.), a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See Crook, and Crosier.
Pastoral Theology, that part of theology which treats of the duties of pastors.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of or pertaining to shepherds," early 15c., from Old French pastoral (13c.), from Latin pastoralis "of herdsmen, of shepherds," from pastor (see pastor (n.)). The noun sense of "poem dealing with country life generally," usually dealing with it in an idealized form and emphasizing the purity and happiness of it, is from 1580s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. 2 Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church. n. 1 A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic. 2 (context music English) 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. Moore 3 (context religion Christianity English) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese. 4 (context religion Christianity English) A letter of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20of%20Bishops, to be read in each parish.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter"
relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: bucolic]
used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian, bucolic, rustic]
suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; "his idyllic life in Tahiti"; "the pastoral legends of America's Golden Age" [syn: idyllic]
Wikipedia
A pastoral lifestyle (see pastoralism) is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art and music that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences. A pastoral is a work of this genre, also known as bucolic, from the Greek , from , meaning a cowherd.
Pastoral can refer to:
- Pastoralism, pastoral farming
- Pastoral, the lifestyle of shepherds, and also a genre of literature, music and visual art
Uses of "pastoral" related to the primary meanings above include:
- In film:
- Pastoral: To Die in the Country, a 1974 film by Shuji Terayama
- In literature:
- Pastoral elegy, a poem about idyllic rural life and death
- Pastoral (theatre of Soule), a form of folk theatre in the region of Soule, France
- Pastoral (1944 novel), a 1944 novel by Nevil Shute
- Pastoral (2014 novel), a 2014 novel by André Alexis
- In music:
- Pastoral pipes, a bagpipe that became the Uilleann pipes
- Pastorale, a musical genre associated with traditional reed instruments
- Beethoven's 6th Symphony, known as the "Pastoral Symphony"
- Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 15, dubbed "Pastoral" by his publisher
- "Pastoral", a song from Head (The Jesus Lizard album)
- In Christianity:
- "Pastoral", the professional role of a Pastor or other Christian clergy
- Pastoral care, the practice of care and counselling by a teacher or minister of religion
- Pastoral Care or Pastoral Rule, a book written by Pope Gregory I
- Pastoral letter, an open letter addressed by a bishop to the clergy or laity of his diocese
- Pastoral staff, or crosier, a symbolic shepherd's staff carried by high-ranking clergy
- In dog classification:
- Pastoral dog (disambiguation), a dog or dog breed that assists humans in managing livestock
- In flower cultivation:
- Pastoral flower, a cultivated flower that was originally a meadow flower
Pastoral is a novel by the English author Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1944 by Heinemann. Its theme is that even in the midst of war, and among warriors, everyday life, such as romance, will continue.
Pastoral is a slight but charming romance set on an English airbase which revolves around an experienced pilot, his bomber crew, their interest in fishing and his developing relationship with a young WAAF signals officer. As with many of Shute's novels, a narrator character who might be seen as Shute appears. It is a simple story told straightforwardly with Shute's normal attention to detail which makes it particularly evocative.
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The pastoral is a traditional kind of play from the Basque Country held in the region of Soule (Zuberoa in Basque), France. It features a set range of characters and acts repeated on all pieces. This kind of theatre represents a dualism between the wicked (dressed in red, called türkak or satanak, literally 'the Turkish' or 'the Demons') and the righteous (blue outfit, called kiristiak, 'the Christians'). On every new creation, a different story is staged, where verses are recited in Zuberoan Basque by the players following a pre-established stance and steps on the scene. Singing and dance play an important role too, the performance actually culminating with a choral staging where the collective spirit is voiced. The development of the story is supported by a brass-band and/or the xirula and the psalterium ( ttun-ttun).
Unlike the other traditional theatrical event of Soule, the maskarada, the pastoral is not a comedy but a tragedy, revolving around a main character, a hero of historical significance, linked to the region or the Basque Country, while prior to the second half of the 20th century the characters portrayed were religious or French national icons. Back then women were banned from playing in the pastorals too, with female roles being performed by men. During the revival of the event in the decades following World War II, this rule was overturned and currently women take part normally in the plays.
Category:Basque culture Category:Basque music
Pastoral is a Canadian novel written by André Alexis. The novel was published in 2014 by Coach House Books. It is the first in a planned cycle of a five novel Quincunx that Alexis will use to examine faith, place, love, power and hatred. The second novel in the cycle, Fifteen Dogs, was released in 2015.
The book was inspired by Beethoven's Sixth Symphony also known as Pastoral Symphony.
Usage examples of "pastoral".
In his pastoral letter to his clergy urging them to take the oath of allegiance, Burnet grounded the claim of William and Mary on the right of conquest, a view which gave such offence that the pamphlet was burnt by the common hangman three years later.
The same sentence they pronounced upon a pastoral letter of bishop Burnet, in which this notion of conquest had been at first asserted.
This dangerous honor was declined by the more prudent successor of Gregory, who alleged the schism of the church, and the duties of his pastoral office, recommending to the faithful, who were disqualified by sex or profession, by age or infirmity, to aid, with their prayers and alms, the personal service of their robust brethren.
It was a slack time in the pastoral year, before the autumn fairs began, and the whole Laverlaw estate turned out to the ceremony, for Nickson was popular and Tarras was one of the oldest hands on the place.
Woodilee had acknowledged his fault and exhibited contumacy thereanent, he was by a unanimous decision suspended from occupying the pulpit and dispensing the Sacrament in the parish, and from all other pastoral rights and duties.
Cheered by this hope, they quickened their pace along the narrow pass they were winding, and it opened upon one of those pastoral vallies of the Apennines, which might be painted for a scene of Arcadia, and whose beauty and simplicity are finely contrasted by the grandeur of the snow-topt mountains above.
He visualized the warm, rolling hills of Phoenicis III, dotted with pastoral Algun villages, and the great walled city-states of the Taknon, covering hundreds of square miles and set in the midst of the Algun landscape.
I had never been present at any of these pastoral tourneys and was hopeful that one would be held within reach of our ranch, for I had heard a great deal about them and was anxious to see one.
The Huns, with their flocks and herds, their wives and children, their dependents and allies, were transported to the west of the Volga, and they boldly advanced to invade the country of the Alani, a pastoral people, who occupied, or wasted, an extensive tract of the deserts of Scythia.
Archbishop Merifio had recently issued another pastoral urging an end to schools without God, especially those that educated girls.
A warming sight after months in captivity in the pastoral wilds of New England, stately trees, broad avenues, white Congregationalist churches, blue-eyed people.
Then he had four large storerooms stacked to the ceiling with dried cattle hides bartered from the pastoral Dinka and Shilluk tribes to the south.
He hastily took in lease the pastoral farm of Corfardin, in the parish of Tynron, Dumfriesshire, to which he afterwards added the lease of another large farm in the same neighbourhood.
The former had a distinguished turn for pastoral poetry, and wrote some things at Eton with all the enthusiasm of early years, and yet with all the judgment of advanced life.
Having carried off as a mere boy the highest honours of the University, he had turned from the admiration which haunted his steps, and sought for a better and holier satisfaction in pastoral work in the country.