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Definition of Pastor

1. Noun. A person authorized to conduct religious worship. "Clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"

2. Noun. Only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus.

Definition of Pastor

1. n. A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

Definition of Pastor

1. Noun. (rare) A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals. ¹

2. Noun. A minister or a priest in a Christian church. ¹

3. Verb. (Christianity) To serve a congregation as pastor ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pastor

1. to serve as the spiritual overseer of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Pastor

1. 1. A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds. 2. A guardian; a keeper; specifically, a minister having the charge of a church and parish. 3. A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts. Origin: L, fr. Pascere, pastum, to pasture, to feed. Cf. Pabulum, Pasture, Food. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastor

pastings pastirma pastis pastises pastizzi pastless pastmaster pastness pastnesses pastophori

pastophorus pastor (current term) pastorage pastorages pastoral pastoral care pastoral counseling pastorale pastorales pastorali

pastoralism pastoralisms pastoralist pastoralists pastorally pastoralness

Literary usage of Pastor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1907)
"The pastor is a teacher of religion, not primarily as a science or a history, ... The pastor may be religious without any knowledge of this wide and fertile ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1908)
"It will be well to confine this paper to the pastor's teaching of the young. And our first point will be that the minister should be closely and intimately ..."

3. Catalogue by Syracuse University, St. Louis, Public school library (1910)
"Homer G. McMillen ('10) was ordained and installed pastor of the church at ... JW Reese ('78) was installed pastor of the First Church of Williamsburg, Pa., ..."

4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1884)
"Isaac Adams of Sherborn was maried to Martha Vose of Milton By Peter Thacher pastor. May 3, 1722. Robert Carter Cowel of Boston was maried to Jane Vose of ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Only in this way can thoroughness, regularity, and impartiality be secured in the visitation of the people. The pastor in these calls should aim to enter ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Dr. pastor says (IV, 145) that a complete and really critical biography of Carvajal ... pastor says of him that he was absolutely free from the restless ..."

7. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1833)
"pastor, master Knolls pastor : At Dedham, another master Phillips out of office, and master Allen pastor or Teacher: At Sudbury, master Brown in office, ..."

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