Noun

(uncountable) The quality of being organized.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}

(uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.

(countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.

(countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.

(baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

Noun

(en noun)

Home or offices of a pastor; comparable to a rectory

"The pastorage is in front of you," he says, "but the clergyman is not at home, there is no one at the pastorage."
(from The Story of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf, Little, Brown and company, 1910, As Retrieved 2009-09-16

The role or responsibilities of a pastor.

:The old pastor found his pastorage wearying, and longed to retire.

The period of service of a particular pastor to his congregation; his term of office.

:His pastorage had been marked by several changes in church policy with regards to community outreach.

An organization or body consisting of multiple pastors.

:At the denomination's annual conference, the pastorage had passed a bylaw prohibiting members from performing online marriage ceremonies.