Pastoral vs Sacerdotal - What's the difference?

Pastoral is a synonym of sacerdotal.

As adjectives the difference between pastoral and sacerdotal

is that pastoral is of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life while sacerdotal is of or relating to priests or a high religious order; priestly.

As a noun pastoral

is a poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.

pastoral

English

(wikipedia pastoral)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.

:* He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. - 1985 , chapter

:* [...] these pastoral farms,/Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! - 1798 , lines 16-18.

Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church.

pastoral''' duties; a '''pastoral letter

Derived terms

* pastoral staff (Eccl .), a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See crook, and crosier. * pastoral theology, that part of theology which treats of the duties of pastors. * pastoralism * pastoralist

Noun

(en noun)

A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.

(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. Moore

(religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.

(religion, Christianity) A letter of the , to be read in each parish.

sacerdotal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to priests or a high religious order; priestly.

* 1886 , , The Bostonians .

*:Verena's initial appearance in Boston, as he called her performance at Miss Birdseye's, had been a great success; and this reflection added, as I say, to his habitually sacerdotal expression. He looked like the priest of a religion that was passing through the stage of miracles; he carried his responsibility in the general elongation of his person, of his gestures (his hands were now always in the air, as if he were being photographed in postures), of his words and sentences, as well as in his smile, as noiseless as a patent hinge, and in the folds of his eternal waterproof.

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