pastoral

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  1. adjective Of or relating to shepherds or herders.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or used for animal husbandry.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the country or country life; rural.
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  • Although it begins as a pastoral, the mere traditional and conventional frippery of that form is by no means so prominent in it as in the later (and, I think, less consummate) companion and sequel Thyrsis . —  Matthew Arnold
  • GOEHRING: Three modes of perception in Mozart - the philosophical, pastoral, and comic in —  Opera Today
  • What the author of this study brings to the reader, which others have not, is a detailed examination of the philosophical, pastoral, and comic background of the libretto, characters, and music of the opera. —  Opera Today
  • The Bible's lovely pastoral, the Song of Songs, teaches us divine love by a sort of analogia amoris, an analogy between the love between God and his congregation and the love of bridegroom and bride. —  Asia Times Online
  • Like the pastoral, the western caresses a landscape it knows to be already lost and alive only in the imagination; and in "Shane" the caress is lingering, loving and sad. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor, shepherd; see pastor.

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  1. Middle English pastorel, n., a shepherd: from Old French pastorel, French pastoral = Spanish Portuguese pastoral = Italian pastorale, from Latin pastoralis, pertaining to a herdsman or shepherd, in Middle Latin also pertaining to the pastor of a church, or to a bishop (as a noun, pastoralis, masculine, pastorale, neuter, a pasture), from pastor, a herdsman, shepherd: see pastor.
 

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