pastoralizev.
/ˈpɑːst(ə)rəlʌɪz/, /ˈpast(ə)rəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈpæst(ə)rə ˌlaɪz/ 1. † b. intransitive. Perhaps: to concern oneself with pastoral music. Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive. To compose pastoral poetry; to write a pastoral (pastoral n. 3). rare.
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1818 L. Hunt tr. Theocritus Rural Journey 25 in Foliage Let us take mutual help, and by the way Pastoralize a little: for my mouth Breathes also of the Muse.
1822 L. Hunt in Examiner 7 July 420/1 It was reasonable in him [sc. Dr Johnson] to laugh at Prior and Congreve for..pastoralizing about Queen Mary.
1993 Chinese Lit. 15 80 Where pastoral is seen to sustain a double falsity..the refusal to pastoralize becomes not just an artistic but a moral choice.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > perform specific type of music
serenade1671
prelude1680
fugue1783
pastoralize1828
preludize1829
symphonize1833
ran-tan1866
counterpoint1875
rag1896
ragtime1908
jazz1916
rock1931
jivec1938
bop1947
blow1949
rock-and-roll1956
skiffle1957
hip-hop1983
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 39 A second set..pastoralising over the little musical pieces of the ‘Vaudeville’.
c. transitive. To put into or celebrate in a pastoral (pastoral n. 3).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > pastoral poem > put into or celebrate in pastoral [verb (transitive)]
pastoralize1839
1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 536 It would never have answered to pastoralize the prattle which was heard in the streets and forums of Syracuse.
1842 United Service Mag. ii. 6 Izaak Walton pastoralized the art into popularity.
1895 C. H. Herford in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Introd. 43 A somewhat clumsy attempt to pastoralise Bion's dainty myth.
1939 T. P. Harrison Pastoral Elegy 273 In the attempt to pastoralize Christ's life, Boccaccio gains a fine lyric effect.
1987 ELH 54 291 The muse..pastoralizes the progress.
1992 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 5 May (Arts section) 11 In painting and sculpture, the nude male and female bodies were idealized and pastoralized.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > pastor > act as pastor [verb (intransitive)]
pastoralize1870
pastor1872
1870 L. Tyerman Life J. Wesley I. 420 The time of the two Wesleys was now employed in pastoralizing the societies they had formed.
3. transitive. To make pastoral or rural; spec. to deindustrialize.Now only with reference to the plan to deindustrialize Germany after the Second World War (1939–45). Cf. pastoralization n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [verb (transitive)] > make rustic or pastoral
pastoralize1946
1946 Internat. Affairs 22 131 The alternative extremes of pastoralizing Germany (Morgenthau plan) and of encouraging the rapid restoration of German industry.
1957 Oxf. Econ. Papers 9 130 Mr. Morgenthau gatecrashed to seek support for his scheme to ‘pastoralize’ Germany.
1972 Science 12 May 644/1 In Churchill's term, its goal was to ‘pastoralize’ Germany.
1998 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) Aug. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau's bizarre plan to ‘pastoralize’ post-war Germany, and destroy her industrial capacity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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