vicar

• vic. (abbreviation)

From Middle English vicar, viker, vikyr, vicaire, vicare, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman vikare, vicare, vikaire, vikere and Old French vicaire (“deputy, second in command”), from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪkɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

vicar (plural vicars)

1. In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.

   Hypernym: cleric

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.

   • 1997, Frank Muir, chapter 1, in A Kentish Lad, →ISBN:

     For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.

2. In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.

   Hypernym: cleric

3. A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.

• vicarate
• vicarian
• vicariate

• → Welsh: ficer

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• -cavir, Virac, vraic

Derived from vice +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /viˈt͡sar/

vicar (present vicas, past vicis, future vicos, conditional vicus, imperative vicez)

1. (transitive, archaic) to replace

   Synonym: remplasar

    Conjugation of vicar

		present		past		future
infinitive		vicar		vicir		vicor
tense		vicas		vicis		vicos
conditional		vicus
imperative		vicez
adjective active participle		vicanta		vicinta		viconta
adverbial active participle		vicante		vicinte		viconte
nominal active participle	singular	vicanto		vicinto		viconto
	plural	vicanti		vicinti		viconti
adjective passive participle		vicata		vicita		vicota
adverbial passive participle		vicate		vicite		vicote
nominal passive participle	singular	vicato		vicito		vicoto
	plural	vicati		viciti		vicoti

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 102
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 130

Borrowed from French vicaire, from Latin vicarius.

vicar m (plural vicari)

1. vicar