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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Vicar :: Vicar (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
Vicary :: Vicary (n.) A vicar.
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..
Vicarage :: Vicarage (n.) The benefice of a vicar.
Rector :: Rector (n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar..
Vicarship :: Vicarship (n.) The office or dignity of a vicar.
Vicarial :: Vicarial (a.) Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment..
Vicariously :: Vicariously (adv.) In a vicarious manner.
Vicarage :: Vicarage (n.) The house or residence of a vicar.
Parish :: Parish (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein..
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..
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
Altarist :: Altarist (n.) A vicar of a church.
Vicariate :: Vicariate (n.) Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight 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..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority..
Vicar :: Vicar (n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.
Unvicar :: Unvicar (v. t.) To deprive of the position or office a vicar.
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