pastorial or pastoral

If you are referring to a musical composition, literary work or art idealizing rural life, it is pastoral. Pastorial is a misspelling. Pastoral is correct.

Pastoral refers to the duty of a pastor in taking care of souls and also their rural life and scene.

"Ministers of the Lord have been delegated to the pastoral lifestyle in their service of God."

Pastorial is the incorrect spelling for the word, pastoral. It is unacceptable in official writings and texts.

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Definitions

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• n  a musical composition that evokes rural life
• n  a letter from a pastor to the congregation
• n  a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
• a  of or relating to a pastor
  pastoral work
  a pastoral letter
• a  relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  pastoral seminomadic people
  pastoral land
  a pastoral economy
• s  (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
  charming in its pastoral setting

News & Articles

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• Local news and sports reporting covering Niles, Dowagiac, Cassopolis, Edwardsburg, Cass County, Berrien County in ...
  New Vision Church, 819 Lake St., Niles, will celebrate its 22nd Pastorial and 87th church anniversary July 19- 21 with Bishop Carlton Burrel and his wife, Evg. Gayle Burrel.
  July 1, 2013 - Niles Daily Star

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• Displaying Art Depends On Frame Of Reference
  The importance of artwork and how it's displayed has remained with me since childhood when I first took a picture of a pretty young woman set in a pastoral scene from a magazine, placed it in a wood frame ( purchased at the 5-and-10-cent store) and hung
  June 12, 2013 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Three Staten Island Roman Catholic parishes regroup under Cardinal Dolan, sources say
  It's all part of a pastoral shuffle slated to occur July 1.
  June 11, 2013 - Staten Island Advance
• Three Staten Island Roman Catholic parishes regroup under Cardinal Dolan, sources say
  It's all part of a pastoral shuffle slated to occur July 1.
  June 11, 2013 - Staten Island Advance