Vicar Definition

vĭkər
noun
A person who acts in place of another; deputy.
Webster's New World
A parish priest who is not a rector and receives a stipend instead of the tithes.
Webster's New World
A minister in charge of a chapel.
Webster's New World
An Anglican or Roman Catholic cleric who acts for or represents another, often higher-ranking member of the clergy.
American Heritage
A church officer acting as a deputy of a bishop.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Vicar

Noun

Singular:
vicar
Plural:
vicars

Origin of Vicar

  • Middle English from Old French vicaire from Latin vicārius vicarious, a substitute from vicis genitive of vix change weik-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute").

    From Wiktionary

Vicar Sentence Examples

  • He was vicar of a small church in the country 150 years ago.

  • He seems to have remained at Oxford until 1630, when he became vicar of Chippenham.

  • The term "curate" in the present day is almost exclusively used to signify a clergyman who is assistant to a rector or vicar, by whom he is employed and paid; and a clerk in deacon's orders is competent to be licensed by a bishop to the office of such assistant curate.

  • He then returned to Balliol as a Snell exhibitioner; became vicar of High Ercall, Shropshire, in 1750; canon of Windsor, 1762; bishop of Carlisle, 1787 (and also dean of Windsor, 1788); bishop of Salisbury, 1791.

  • Frederick enlisted his Saracen troops at Nocera and Luceria, and appointed the terrible Ezzelino da Romano his vicar in.

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Words Starting With

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