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pastoral ['pæstәrәl]

n. 牧歌, 田园诗

a. 牧人的, 田园生活的, 牧师的, 田园式的

pastoral

[ noun ]

a musical composition that evokes rural life

<noun.communication>

a letter from a pastor to the congregation

<noun.communication>

a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)

<noun.communication>

[ adj ]

of or relating to a pastor

<adj.pert>

pastoral work

a pastoral letter

relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle

<adj.pert>

pastoral seminomadic people

pastoral land

a pastoral economy

(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

<adj.all>

a country life of arcadian contentment

a pleasant bucolic scene

charming in its pastoral setting

rustic tranquility

Pastoral \Pas"tor*al\, n.
1. 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.

2. (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).

3. (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}.]
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; 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.

The document was more conservative in tone than a draft pastoral letter released last spring by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops.
A lovely pastoral scene later on populated by figures of Shiva, an elephant, and an Indian woman playing with an electric yo-yo, is broken up by fascist bikers.
With a study showing Catholics contribute 40 percent less of their income than members of other churches, the bishops on Monday also ordered work to begin on a pastoral letter on church giving.
On the walls are pastoral farm scenes.
The leaflet, "A Biblical Perspective on Civil Disobedience," said it represents the "carefully studied view of the pastoral staff and deacons" of the church, the state's largest Baptist congregation.
Best Canadian film: Guy Maddin's Alpine-Gothic pastoral pastiche, Careful.
Farrell ended his 12-year pastoral duties at St. Agnes Friday amid tears of joy and sorrow from about 20 parishioners.
The 23-acre campus is studiously pastoral, with its gaggles of geese and its little walking bridges and man-made islands.
"We cannot continue like this," the church said in an eight-page pastoral letter signed by Archbishop Marcos Gregorio McGrath and the nation's 10 bishops.
Mineral rights, for instance, would remain with the Crown. While the mining and pastoral industries know that government would pick up compensation costs, this would not prevent long hearings to establish native title rights.
The yard allows designers to seek inspiration by gazing out on a pastoral setting.
They said they plan to condemn hatred toward Jews and voice regret for anti-Semitic acts committed onPPolish soil in a long-awaited pastoral letter early next year.
Monday night, when video tapes of Sunday's hurling and football matches are flown in from Ireland, is prime time for pastoral pub crawling.
Leich, in a pastoral letter, also appealed to East German security officials to show restraint during peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations.
His 'heroic pastoral' Titon et l'Aurora was produced in 1753 at the Opera in Paris with Marie Fel and the tenor Jelyotte. Titon is a shepherd in love with the goddess Aurora.
Athough not binding, pastoral letters are circulated among Catholic churches and serve as a guide for educational efforts, preaching and the training of semarians.
Cardinal Roger Etchegary, president of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission, said the passage was symbolic, recalling the time John Paul gave away his pastoral ring during a visit to Brazil.
Two weeks ago, the Catholic bishops distributed a pastoral letter suggesting Catholics consider not voting in this month's nationwide municipal elections.
The Archdiocese is responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics in the armed forces.
The 15-second spots feature Maples, rumored to be Donald Trump's mistress, in a pastoral setting wearing No Excuses jeans and holding copies of the National Enquirer and Star.
The Communists have ruled this Soviet-allied pastoral nation with an iron grip since 1921, when the Soviets helped Mongolia gain independence from China.
The pope's nine-city tour is being billed as a pastoral visit to America's 52 million Catholics.
They have been seeking to ensure that native title could sit alongside pastoral, tourism or forestry leases, and revive once these expired. The issue of Aborigine land rights has been contentious for the past 18 months.
Islam is the state religion in the impoverished pastoral nation, which is on the Horn of Africa and juts into the Indian Ocean to the south and the Gulf of Aden to the north.
Claas was a citizen of West Germany, where he had served in a number of pastoral and administrative posts.
Mr Vick proves his fuller understanding of it by staging the pastoral divertissement, with the help of Ron Howell's delicious mock-authentic dances, with a touch of gentle comedy that never turns into send-up.
Nearby were his miter and pastoral staff.
The cow, a pastoral fixture since ancient times and more recently the model for such kitsch items as T-shirts and salt shakers, is now the subject of a traveling art exhibit.
Quayle rode through Ohio on a winding bus tour through pastoral farm land, attacking Democrat Michael Dukakis as soft on crime, one of the Republicans' favorite themes.
And that is going to be a monumental change," said the Rev. Eleanor Lee McGee, an assistant professor of pastoral counseling at Yale Divinity School.

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