lay vicar
nounChurch of England.
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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Such secular vicars of Bray were not likely to suffer whatever king or government came uppermost.
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