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Priest vs Pasture - What's the difference?

priest | pasture |

As a proper noun priest

is .

As a noun pasture is

land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.

As a verb pasture is

to move animals into a to graze.

priest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A religious clergyman who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
  • A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
  • (Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.

    • Derived terms

    * high priest * priestdom * priestess * priesthood * priest-king * priestly

    Coordinate terms

    * imam, guru, rabbi, sangha

    See also

    * archbishop * archimandrite * bishop * brother * clergy * clergyman * cleric * dean * father * monk * Monsignor * nun * prelate * vicar

    References

    * '>citation * Smart, Alastair Fish Welfare at Harvest: Killing Me Softly * Comparison of Common Slaughter Methods for Farmed Finfish Seafood innovations.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ordain as a priest.

    • Anagrams

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    pasture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Land on which cattle can be kept for feeding.
  • Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxiii. 2
    • He maketh me to lie down in green pastures .
  • * Shakespeare
    • So graze as you find pasture .
  • (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
    • Ne euer is he wont on ought to feed, / But toades and frogs, his pasture poysonous [...].

    Derived terms

    * pasture rose * pasture thistle

    Verb

  • To move animals into a to graze.
  • To graze.
  • To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.
    • The farmer pastures''' fifty oxen; the land will '''pasture forty cows.

    Anagrams

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