pastorie, noun

/ˌpastuˈri/
Origin:
Afrikaans, Dutch, medieval LatinShow more Afrikaans (from Dutch), adaptation of medieval Latin pastoria.
The residence of a minister of one of the Dutch Reformed churches; a parsonage.
[1856 E.R. Murray in J. Murray Young Mrs Murray (1954) 11Bloemfontein Parsonage (or Pastorie as the Dutch call it).]
1910 D. Fairbridge That Which Hath Been (1913) 262On the stoep of his pastorie sat the minister,..watching Dorp Straat come to life again after its mid-day sleep.
1915 D. Fairbridge Torch Bearer 97Enlarged photographs of the Reverend Septimus van Schoor’s predecessors at the Pastorie hung on the chocolate-tinted walls.
1930 Outspan 25 July 17At daybreak the predikant had sent for her to the Pastorie, where poor little Sari Malan lay breathing out the last of her pitiful young life.
1950 H.C. Bosman in S. Gray Makapan’s Caves (1987) 141And the commandant-general and the dominee had words about whether the plein in the middle of the dorp should be for the Dopper Church, with a pastorie next to it.
1951 H. Davies Great S. Afr. Christians 45Lindley and his family came to minister to the Boers in 1841. He received a salary of £100 per annum, with the free use of the pastorie.
1951 H. Davies Great S. Afr. Christians 45 [see gem sense 1].
1963 R. Lewcock Early 19th C. Archit. 227The house was granted to the Dutch Reformed Church as a ‘pastorie’, which function it served until well into the present century.
1972 Evening Post 19 Feb. (Mag. Sect.) 2In 1834 it became the Pastorie of the Dutch Reformed Church and so remained till 1944.
1983 D. Hughes et al. Complete Bk of S. Afr. Wine 226In 1743 a small church, described as ‘a very humble and simple edifice’, was built. Between it and its pastorie a row of about a dozen small houses was strung out.
1991 F.G. Butler Local Habitation 281Now, right opposite the Pastorie, next to the Manse and a stone’s throw from the Rectory, the inhabitants of Bree Street had to see and smell the ragged poor for hours at a stretch.
The residence of a minister of one of the Dutch Reformed churches; a parsonage.
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