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rosy pastor
noun
See under pastor ( def 3 ).
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tər, ˈpɑ noun
1.
a minister or priest in charge of a church.
2.
a person having spiritual care of a number of persons.
3.
Ornithology. any of various starlings, especially Sturnus roseus (rosy pastor) of Europe and Asia.
verb (used with object)
4.
to serve as the pastor of: He pastored the church here for many years.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
pastor (ˈpɑːstə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a clergyman or priest in charge of a congregation |
| 2. | a person who exercises spiritual guidance over a number of people |
| 3. | an archaic word for shepherd |
| 4. | Also called: rosy pastor a S Asian starling, Sturnus roseus, having glossy black head and wings and a pale pink body |
| [C14: from Latin: shepherd, from pascere to feed] | |
| 'pastorship | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
pastor
mid-13c., "shepherd," also "spiritual guide, shepherd of souls" (late 14c.), from O.Fr. pastur "herdsman, shepherd" (12c.), from L. pastorem (nom. pastor) "shepherd," from pastus, pp. of pascere "to lead to pasture, graze," from PIE base *pa- "to tend, keep, pasture, feed, guard" (see
food). The spiritual sense was in Church Latin (cf. Gregory's "Cura Pastoralis"). The verb in the Christian sense is from 1872.
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Cultural Dictionary
pastor definition
In some groups of Christians, the clergyman in charge of an individual congregation. The term is used this way in the Lutheran Church and Roman Catholic Church and, to a lesser extent, by Baptists and in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
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