lay vicar


nounChurch of England.
  1. a lay officer in a cathedral who performs those parts of a service not reserved to the priests.

  • Also called clerk vicar, lay clerk, secular vicar.

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How to use lay vicar in a sentence

  • Such secular vicars of Bray were not likely to suffer whatever king or government came uppermost.

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