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vicar
  1. In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
  2. In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
  3. A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “He went to see the vicar at St Michaels, who just listened and smiled as he poured tea, then offered him a part-time job as a verger.”
      “Seems yon vicar changed the water authority into a distillery overnight, producing the best-ever vintage to flow out of Chateau Accrington.”
      “The reverend Nicolas Morgan, vicar of St George's Church in Lower Brailes, paid tribute to the hard work of villagers.”
vicaress
  1. A sister lower in order than an abbess or mother superior in a nunnery or convent.
  2. A female representative.
  3. The wife of a parish vicar.
vicarage
  1. (countable) The residence of a vicar.
  2. The benefice, duties or office of a vicar.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The vicarage was a charming, three-story house overlooking the church, serving as a residence for the minister of the local Anglican church.”
      “Mr Finch said the scheme would also cut off the vicarage from the Methodist church in Stockbridge Road, which runs a joint Sunday school.”
      “Police found the antique gun in a grandfather clock at Holy Rood vicarage in Swinton.”
vicarate
  1. The territory for which a vicar is responsible.
vicarship
  1. The office or dignity of a vicar.
vicariation
  1. The result of becoming vicarious
  2. Examples:
    1. “These reorganizations may underlie vicariation of lost functions following stroke.”
vicariousness
  1. The quality of being vicarious.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He doling out fates with indecent vicariousness, reveling in his front-row seat at the parade of vices.”
      “Of one part of His work, of the sacrifice which He offered for man's guilt, the essence was its vicariousness.”
      “More subtly perhaps, the incamational model of the atonement undercuts the sense of vicariousness that underlies the satisfaction and penal models.”
vicariate
  1. The office or authority of a vicar.
vicary
  1. Obsolete form of vicar.
vicarian
  1. (obsolete) A vicar.
vicariousnesses
  1. plural of vicariousness
vicariations
  1. plural of vicariation
vicariates
  1. plural of vicariate
vicarships
  1. plural of vicarship
vicarians
  1. plural of vicarian
vicarages
vicarates
  1. plural of vicarate
vicaresses
  1. plural of vicaress
vicaries
  1. plural of vicary
vicars
  1. plural of vicar
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Female curates are acceptable in many parishes but not as vicars and that has to change.”
      “By the early 1590s it was accepted that a full hierarchy was impossible and a more ad hoc system of vicars apostolic adopted.”
      “His Scouse accent is resolutely unsoftened by regular contact with vicars and other representatives of the lecturing classes.”
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