adjective
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of or relating to a vicar, vicars, or a vicariate
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holding the office of a vicar
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vicarious: used esp of certain ecclesiastical powers
Etymology
Origin of vicarial
Example Sentences
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For this reason his vicarial representative can plead scores of excuses for presenting himself at "The Court."
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
He extended his vicarial authority into a virtual sovereignty of the Lombard towns, acknowledging only the German Emperor as his feudal lord.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Think of the evil that man meant--how he tried to trip up the heels of Tuscany, establish a precarious vicarial existence for the Romagna, and plots now at Naples.
From Lady John Russell by
But our Government is altogether conducted on the footing of vicarial responsibility.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
I don't suppose such vicarial piety will avail much, but the petitions come out of a sincere breast, from innocent lips.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
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