pastorate
(ˈpɑːstərət, ˈpæ-)
[ad. med.L. pastōrātus office of pastor; in mod.F. pastorat (Littré).]
1. The office or position of a pastor; the tenure of such office.
| a 1795 Ezra Stiles cited in Webster 1828. 1828 Webster, Pastorate, the office, state or jurisdiction of a spiritual pastor. 1852 C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) IV. xi. 124 They insisted on his assuming the pastorate. 1901 Scotsman 9 Mar. 8/8 Recollections from a Border pastorate of twenty years. |
2. A body of pastors, pastors collectively.
| 1846 Worcester, Pastorate, the office or body of pastors. Ec. Rev. 1878 Bayne Purit. Rev. i. 23 The pastorate of Scotland, dependent..for its existence on its representing the..national feeling. 1894 Times 14 Aug. 15/3 It is not..a question of celibate brotherhoods versus a married pastorate. |