Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vicar.
- noun A vicarage: the quotation refers to the once common practice of the patron's pocketing the best part of the vicar's income.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A vicar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
vicar .
Etymologies
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Latin vicarius.
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Examples
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Wyche, sum tyme vicary of Depforde in the schire of Kent, brent for lollery at the Tour hill; and there manye of his secte and of his lord wenten and offred at the same place where he was brent, tyl manye of them were aspyed and put in prison; and for doughte that there schulde
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