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Pastoral life or occupation.

PASTORALLY
1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
OCCUPATION
1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
PASTORALE
A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time. 2. A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
PASTORAL
1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. 2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter. Pastoral staff , a staff, usually of the form
INOCCUPATION
Want of occupation.
DISOCCUPATION
The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
TRAGI-COMI-PASTORAL
Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. Gay.
PREOCCUPATION
1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.