Definition of pastoral

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Pastoral (n.) 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.

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Pastoral :: Pastoral (n.) A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
Drone :: Drone (v. i.) A monotonous bass, as in a pastoral composition..
Pastorale :: Pastorale (n.) A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
Shepherdish :: Shepherdish (n.) Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral.
Shepherdism :: Shepherdism (n.) Pastoral life or occupation.
Siciliano :: Siciliano (n.) A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance..
Yakoots :: Yakoots (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A nomadic Mongolian tribe native of Northern Siberia, and supposed to be of Turkish stock. They are mainly pastoral in their habits..
Settle :: Settle (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister..
Crook :: Crook (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
Bergeret :: Bergeret (n.) A pastoral song.
Reed :: Reed (n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
Shepherdly :: Shepherdly (a.) Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic..
Eclogue :: Eclogue (n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established..
Pastorally :: Pastorally (adv.) In a pastoral or rural manner.
Amaryllis :: Amaryllis (n.) A pastoral sweetheart.
Arcadic :: Arcadic (a.) Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery..
Pastoral :: Pastoral (a.) Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life..
Pastoral :: Pastoral (n.) 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 :: Pastoral (a.) Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter..
Bucolic :: Bucolic (n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil..
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