Definition of vicar

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Vicar (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.

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Regency :: Regency (a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability..
Vicegerent :: Vicegerent (n.) An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar..
Regency :: Regency (a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government..
Archpriest :: Archpriest (n.) A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean..
Caliph :: Caliph (n.) Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey..
Vicarian :: Vicarian (n.) A vicar.
Vicary :: Vicary (n.) A vicar.
Vicarship :: Vicarship (n.) The office or dignity of a vicar.
Curate :: Curate (n.) One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar..
Vicarage :: Vicarage (n.) The benefice of a vicar.
Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat
Parish :: Parish (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment..
Vicarial :: Vicarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes..
Altarist :: Altarist (n.) A vicar of a church.
Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory..
Unvicar :: Unvicar (v. t.) To deprive of the position or office a vicar.
Portionist :: Portionist (n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.
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