Synonym: arcadian, bucolic, idyll, idyllic, pastorale, rustic. Similar words: pastoralism, pastor, storage, castor, restoration, electoral college, oral, past. Meaning: ['pæstərəl /'pɑːs-] n. 1. a musical composition that evokes rural life 2. a letter from a pastor to the congregation 3. a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds). adj. 1. of or relating to a pastor 2. relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle 3. used of idealized country life 4. suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene.
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31. I feel I must meet, as part of my pastoral duties, the noble father of such a modest little visionary.
32. Its thickly wooded shores, pastoral rivers and mercurial weather draw naturalists and artists.
33. One was the prevalence of nomadic, pastoral life, as in Arabia.
34. So too is disciplined listening, and those guiding others should learn some of the skills of pastoral counselling.
35. He favored moderate men with strong pastoral instincts and well-nuanced doctrinal views.
36. His external image offers a remarkable contrast to this picture of dedicated pastoral care.
37. He also planned to recommend not one, but three solid pastoral candidates of whom the cardinal could take his pick.
38. A pastoral atmosphere prevailed, despite the looming brick of the three-storey structure with its adjoining chapel and outlying houses.
39. Regional variations - Gallican or otherwise - were disapproved, whether liturgical, theological or pastoral.
40. This is its function as part of the pastoral care attached to Anselm's office.
41. One wall was a picture window affording a pastoral view of Lower Los Angeles right down to the beach.
42. She was a plump woman in a knitted suit whose chief concern, she told Josie, was pastoral care.
43. Like the rituals of harvest and planting in pastoral societies, the desert broom tufts are a sign.
44. In the upland region an old-established pastoral economy and the local industry that supported it was in sharp decline.
45. The newly elected prelate still needed ecclesiastical consecration before he could exercise his pastoral functions.
46. There is no formal procedure, like the pastoral Measure, for declaring unwanted churches redundant and deciding their future.
47. Some churches are closed against the will of local people to fit in with diocesan pastoral plans.
48. He craves the simplicity and innocence of a pastoral world but also wishes to enjoy the luxuries of his own.
49. The Wusun were a pastoral people 2,000 ii to the northeast of Ferghana who lived a nomadic life like the Huns.
50. Amyntas is a pastoral narrative of self-redemption in relation to, in the desire for, and in the space of, the other.
51. The inspector general of police declared the pastoral letter seditious and possession of it a crime.
52. The Heber Valley is a pastoral spot ringed by mountains.
53. This area is predominantly pastoral, often with bocage - fields and hedges.
54. Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level.
55. In essence the principles of pastoral care for children have not been extended to adults.
56. Many pastoral and voluntary caring relationships are now bought and sold in the market place.
57. There is an important pastoral role to be played by the director, and non-musical demands can be time-consuming.
58. Teaching,[www.Sentencedict.com] communication and pastoral skills are also needed by those with responsibility for the training and direction of others.
59. It was no accident that a good many towns were sited on the borderline between arable farming and pastoral regions.
60. The latter assumes a low profile and concentrates on the pastoral approach.
More similar words: pastoralism, pastor, storage, castor, restoration, electoral college, oral, past, coral, pasta, paste, repast, pastime, pasture, corporal, for all I know, temporal, morality, in the past, as to, toothpaste, torah, behavioral, demoralize, story, storm, store, so as to, cast off, orator.