Defn: A vicar. [Obs.] Marston.
VICARIATE
Vi*ca"ri*ate, a.
Defn: Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. Barrow.
VICARIATE
Vi*ca"ri*ate, n. Etym: [LL. vicariatus, or F. vicariat.]
Defn: Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight
of a vicar.
The vicariate of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon
laws devolved on the elector of Saxony. Robertson.
VICARIOUS Vi*ca"ri*ous, a. Etym: [L. vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin to Gr. wechsel a change, and probably also to E. weak. See Weak, and cf. Vice, prep.]
1. Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
2. Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer. The soul in the body is but a subordinate efficient, and vicarious . . . in the hands of the Almighty. Sir M. Hale.
3. Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment. The vicarious work of the Great Deliverer. I. Taylor.
4. (Med.)