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noun
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Protestant Episcopal Church.
a.
a member of the clergy whose sole or chief charge is a chapel dependent on the church of a parish.
b.
a bishop's assistant in charge of a church or mission.
3.
Roman Catholic Church. an ecclesiastic representing the pope or a bishop.
4.
a person who acts in place of another; substitute.
5.
a person who is authorized to perform the functions of another; deputy: God's vicar on earth.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French vicare; Old French vicaire < Latin vicārius a substitute, noun use of adj.; see vicarious
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French vicare; Old French vicaire < Latin vicārius a substitute, noun use of adj.; see vicarious
Related forms
vic·ar·ship, noun
sub·vic·ar, noun
sub·vic·ar·ship, noun
un·der·vic·ar, noun
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- We don't want to know who killed the vicar right away.
- In a statement, the former vicar general took full responsibility for the decision to reinstate the priest to pastoral work.
- Once upon a time, the good vicar was the one who preached the best sermon.
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Word Origin & History
vicar
c.1300, from O.Fr. vicaire, from L. vicarius "substitute, deputy," noun use of adj. vicarius "substituting," from vicis "change, turn, office" (see vicarious). The original notion is of "earthly representative of God or Christ;" but also used in sense of "person acting
EXPANDas parish priest in place of a real parson" (early 14c.). The original Vicar of Bray (in fig. use from 1660s) seems to have been Simon Allen, who held the benefice from c.1540 to 1588, thus serving from the time of Henry VIII to Elizabeth, and was twice a Catholic and twice a Protestant, but always vicar of Bray. The village is near Maidenhead in Berkshire.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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vicar
(from Latin vicarius, "substitute"), an official acting in some special way for a superior, primarily an ecclesiastical title in the Christian Church. In the Roman Empire as reorganized by Emperor Diocletian (reigned 284-305), the vicarius was an important official, and the title remained in use for secular officials in the Middle Ages. In the Roman Catholic Church, "vicar of Christ" became the special designation of the popes starting in the 8th century, and eventually it replaced the older title of "vicar of St. Peter."
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