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Definition of Pastorly
1. a. Appropriate to a pastor.
Definition of Pastorly
1. Adjective. Befitting a pastor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pastorly
1. befitting a pastor (a spiritual overseer) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastorly
Literary usage of Pastorly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"... several charges, the " pastorly rod and sheep-hook of Christ." Such is Milton's,
such, in its purest form, is the Puritan, theory of Church discipline. ..."
2. History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1904)
"... unless we call the zealous and meek censure of the Church a popedom, which
whoso does, let him advise how he can reject the pastorly rod and ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... with a genuine, Fatherly and pastorly regard; but all sought their owne and
not the things of Christ; and that in Rome: so that whereas charitie i. ..."
4. Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell by Horace Bushnell, Mary A. Bushnell Cheney (1880)
"... and look back, with longings not to be suppressed, on these pastorly works
and cares, these answering words and faces left behind. ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"2. and strife, when the Pastors did not naturally care for the state of the
Flocke, with a genuine, Fatherly and pastorly regard ; but all sought their owne ..."
6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... when the Pastors did not naturally care for the state of the Flocke, with a
genuine, Fatherly and pastorly regard ; but all sought their owne ..."
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