vicariate

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.ət/

Noun

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vicariate (plural vicariates)

  1. (Christianity) The office, authority, or district of a vicar.
    • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. [], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, [], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
      His next was to claim, in virtue of this vicariate, the mediatorial “power in heaven and in earth”
  2. The office, authority, or district held by a person as deputy for a bishop, or similar ecclesiastical authority.
    • 1611, Sir D. Carleton, Letter in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I.:
      Upon ye late remove of our patriarch's vicar there hath fallen vacant a benefice annexed to ye vicariat.
    • 1725, Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C.:
      Vigilius gave his Vicariate to this Arch-Bishop in the Provinces.
    • 1773, A. Butler, Lives of Saints:
      St. Charles established a vicariat, that things might be done with deliberation and counsel, which many other bishops imitated.
  3. The office, authority, or district managed by someone appointed as deputy to a secular political leader.
    • 1619, F. Cottington, Letters in Eng. & Germ.:
      If he should chance to fayle, the vicariate of Upper Germany must neades fall upon the Palatin.
    • 1711, London Gazette:
      He has accepted and taken upon him‥his part of the Vicariate of the Empire during the present Vacancy.
    • 1769, Robertson, Chas. V, ii. Wks.:
      The vicariat of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws, devolved to the elector of Saxony.

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Adjective

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vicariate (comparative more vicariate, superlative most vicariate)

  1. (archaic, rare) delegated; relating to a representative; vicarious.
    • 1849, Daniel Rock, The Church of Our Fathers:
      To the Bishops of Arles had the Holy See deputed a vicariate power there.

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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vicariate

  1. inflection of vicariare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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vicariate f pl

  1. feminine plural of vicariato

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