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pastoral (iou)



pastoral adjective & noun. LME.
[Latin pastoralis, from PASTOR: see -AL1.]
A. adjective.
I.
Of or pertaining to shepherds or their occupation; pertaining to or occupied in sheep or cattle farming. LME.
C. S. Lewis The change from..a pastoral to an agricultural economy. Auckland Star Criticized the Government..when it..refused pastoral farmers shortterm help.
b. (Of land) used for pasture; (of scenery, a landscape, etc.) having the simplicity or natural charm associated with pastureland. L18.
M. Girouard A setting of woods..and gently swelling hills, a pastoral landscape.
Of literature, Music, or works of Art: portraying rural life or the life of shepherds, esp. in an idealized or romantic form. L16.
R. Christiansen The idyllic blue-skied world of classical pastoral poetry.
II.
Of or pertaining to a pastor or the spiritual care of a congregation. LME.
W. Raeper He had no pastoral duties..but only appeared on Sunday to preach.
b. Of or pertaining to a teacher's responsibility for giving moral care or guidance. M20.
Times Educational Supplement A clear separation between the academic and the pastoral sides of school life.
Special collocations: pastoral epistles Christian Church the books of the New Testament comprising the letter of Paul to Timothy and that to Titus. pastoral lease Austral. & NZ a lease of land for sheep or cattle farming. pastoral letter Christian Church an official letter from a bishop to all the clergy or members of his or her diocese. pastoral staff Ecclesiastical a bishop's crosier. pastoral theology Christian Church: considering religious truth in relation to spiritual needs.
b. noun.
I.
A book on the cure of souls. LME.
Ecclesiastical. A pastoral staff. M17.
Christian Church. A pastoral letter. M19.
Christian Church. In pl. The pastoral epistles. E20.
II. A pastoral game or pastime. rare. L16-E17.
A pastoral poem, play, picture, etc. L16.
b. Music. = PASTORALE. M18.
Pastoral poetry as a form or style of literary composition. L16.
pasto'rality noun (now rare) (a) the quality of being pastoral; (b) a ceramic pastoral figure: E19.
pastorali'zation noun the fact or process of pastoralizing land, esp. industrial land M20.
pastoralize verb trans. (a) make (land) rural or agricultural; (b) celebrate in a pastoral poem etc.: E19.
pastorally adverb M18.
pastoralness noun L19.

Saponification (medicine)


saponification


The alkaline hydrolysis of triacylglycerols toform fatty acids in soaps.