different between pastoral vs rabbinical

English

Etymology

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pastoralis, from p?stor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæs.t?.??l/
• enPR: p?s"t?r-al, IPA^(key): /?pæs?t????l/
• Rhymes: -????l

Adjective

pastoral (comparative more pastoral, superlative most pastoral)

1. Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock
2. Relating to rural life and scenes

   We were living a pastoral life.

   • He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter
   • [...] these pastoral farms,/Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! - 1798 Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, lines 16-18.
3. Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.

   pastoral duties; a pastoral letter

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Translations

Noun

pastoral (plural pastorals)

1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
2. (music) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
3. (religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
4. (religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

Translations

Anagrams

• Laportas, al pastor, postalar, proatlas

Catalan

Adjective

pastoral (masculine and feminine plural pastorals)

1. pastoral

French

Etymology

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pastoralis, from p?stor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -alis.

Adjective

pastoral (feminine singular pastorale, masculine plural pastoraux, feminine plural pastorales)

1. pastoral

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasto??a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

pastoral (not comparable)

1. pastoral

Declension

Portuguese

Adjective

pastoral m or f (plural pastorais, comparable)

1. Alternative form of pastoril
2. pastoral (relating to the pastor of a church)

Noun

pastoral f (plural pastorais)

1. (Roman Catholicism) a letter written by a bishop or the pope explaining a doctrine

Romanian

Etymology

From French pastoral, from Latin pastorale.

Adjective

pastoral m or n (feminine singular pastoral?, masculine plural pastorali, feminine and neuter plural pastorale)

1. pastoral

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

pastoral (plural pastorales)

1. pastoral

Noun

pastoral f (plural pastorales)

1. pastoral

English

Etymology

rabbi +? -ical

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??b?n?k?l/

Adjective

rabbinical (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to rabbis, their writings, or their work.

   Synonym: rabbinic

   • 1581, Robert Parsons, A Brief Censure vppon Two Bookes Written in Answere to M. Edmonde Campions Offer of Disputation, Doway: John Lyon, “Towching the Societie,” section heading,^[1]

     Three kyndes of Rabbinical expositions of the Law.

   • 1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subiects, London: Henry Herringman, Reflection 7, pp. 168-169,^[2]

     to gain a little Rabbinical Learning, and find out some unobvious signification of a Word or Phrase, he must devour the tedious and voluminous Rhapsodies that make up the Talmud, in many of which he can scarce learn any thing but the Art of saying nothing in a multitude of words;

   • 1766, Elizabeth Griffith, The Double Mistake, London: J. Almon et al., Act I, Scene 3,^[3]

     Her father was a very learned divine, and who can tell but she may understand the rabbinical text?

   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book 8, Chapter 68,^[4]

     Deronda was reading a piece of rabbinical Hebrew under Ezra’s correction and comment […]

   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, Chapter 5, p. 203,^[5]

     Oh, please, […] I’m a big boy now—so you can knock off the rabbinical righteousness. It turns out to be a little laughable at this stage of the game.

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