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noun

pastor n.

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

(Zool.) A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pastor" Quotes from Famous Books

... with their timber; except for these wooded river bottoms, the country is all treeless prairie. They were all Presbyterians and devout church-goers. Rev. John P. Williamson was their much-loved missionary; and their church was served for many years by a native pastor—my brother, Rev. John Eastman. Nearly all built good homes. Mr. Williamson says, and Moody County records corroborate the statement, that for twenty years there was not a single crime or misdemeanor recorded ...

— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman

... Mrs. John Chillingly, entering the room to summon her husband to breakfast, stood astounded to see him with his coat off, and parrying the blows of Kenelm, who flew at him like a young tiger. The good pastor at that moment might certainly have appeared a fine type of muscular Christianity, but not of that kind of Christianity out of which one makes Archbishops ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... fed the five thousand despite Andrew's doubts," chimed in the pastor. "May we not hope and pray that he will ...

— Three People • Pansy

... hand Rasmus tells me that Morten Bruus came a- wooing to the rectory at Veilbye some years back, but was sent away with a refusal. The rector seemed to be pleased with him, for the man is rich. But his daughter would not hear to it at all. Pastor Soren may have tried hard to persuade her to consent at first. But when he saw how much she disliked the man he let her do as she would. It was not pride on her part, Rasmus said, for she is as simple and modest as she is ...

— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne

... party, now identified with Arminianism. A national synod was loudly clamored for by the Gomarists; and in spite of all opposition on constitutional grounds, it was finally proclaimed. Uitenbogaard, the enlightened pastor and friend of Maurice, who on all occasions labored for the general good, now moderated, as much as possible, the violence of either party; but he could not persuade Barneveldt to render himself, by compliance, a tacit accomplice with a measure that he conceived fraught with ...

— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan

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