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/pˈæstər/ Listen

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

... his early experiences as a dissenting minister in country towns. He published a forgotten volume of sermons, and his development both in politics and theology was evidently slow. At twenty-seven, as a young pastor at Beaconsfield, we find him a Whig and a Unitarian, who looked up to Dr. Priestley as his master. He had now begun to study the French philosophers, whom Hoxton had doubtless refuted, but did not read. He was not a successful pastor, and ...

— Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle • H. N. Brailsford

... church, and I went there; swept out, trimmed the lamps, and sang in the choir. The preacher was an educated man, and out of the pulpit was kind and reasonable; but he persisted that "Good deeds were but as filthy rags." I didn't believe it and I didn't like it. The staid pastor had but little recreation, and I am afraid I was always glad that Ulrica Schumacher, the frisky sister of the gunsmith, almost always beat him ...

— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock

... the whole history, occasionally smiling languidly, occasionally looking very serious. His reply was given in the kindest tones, but there was the conscious authority of the chief pastor in every word ...

— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance

... is a local inspector of public instruction, adviser of the gobernadorcillos, and president of the various local boards. The Indios see in them a father, a pastor, and a protector, and as such they have always been recognized by the Government of these Islands ...

— The Legacy of Ignorantism • T.H. Pardo de Tavera

... near the centre, in fact but a few removes from the Erskine pew, which was, of course, the wealthy one of the church. The Shipley pew was rarely honored by all the members of the family, and indeed the pastor had no special cause for alarm if several Sundays went by without an appearance from one of them. A variety of trifles might happen to cause such a state of things, from which you will infer that they were not a church-going family. ...

— Four Girls at Chautauqua • Pansy

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