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.
Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.
Relating to rural life and scenes, in particular of poetry.
A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
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.
A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
Narrow; illiberal.
Constituting a province.
Of or pertaining to a province.
Limited in outlook; narrow.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
A country bumpkin.
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.