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vicarial, a.|vaɪ-, vɪˈkɛərɪəl|
[ad. L. type *vicāriāl-is, f. vicārius vicar. So F. and Sp. vicarial.]
1. Delegated, deputed; vicarious.
1617Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 297 Our Lord communicated his power to preistis and his ministires and vicars, and so thar power is ministeriall and vicariall as they call it. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 392 By these vicarial offices in the house his lordship was educated to the employ there. 1747West Resurrection (ed. 2) 275 God..promised to continue that delegated vicarial Sceptre of Righteousness in his [David's] Posterity for ever. 1803Edin. Rev. I. 390 The contest for vicarial and deputed power..is more prudent than the struggle for that which is original and supreme. 1850Card. Wiseman Pastoral 7 Oct., The silver links of that chain which has connected their country with the See of Peter in its Vicarial Government. 1868Lightfoot Philip. (1885) 267 His office is representative, and not vicarial.
2. Of or belonging to a vicar or vicars.
1744J. Comyns Reports of Cases 634 Wallis ver. Pain and Underhill... Mr. Underhill the Vicar insisted upon the Tithe of Clover Seed as a Vicarial or small Tithe. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 376 Hence many things, as wood in particular, is in some countries a predial, and in some a vicarial tithe. 1825R. Churton in R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. I. Introd. p. viii, He fitted up the vicarial house. 1840John Bull 7 Nov. 540/2 A question relative to the liability of vicarial lands to Church rates was mooted before the bench. 1865M. E. C. Walcott Cathedralia 165 The vicarial stalls of Gaia major and Sandiacre have been also restored.
3. Consisting of vicars.
1771in Mem. Rev. W. Richardson (1821) 13 In May, the death of poor Frank, by a consumption, made a vacancy in the vicarial body.
4. Holding the office of a vicar.
1806V. Knox Serm. Isa. xxviii. 16 Wks. 1824 VI. 377 But the great proprietors of land soon..obtained for each a resident pastor, either rectorial or vicarial, either an incumbent or a substitute. |