Definition of vicar

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Vicar (n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.

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Vicary :: Vicary (n.) A vicar.
Delegate :: Delegate (n.) Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
Vicarage :: Vicarage (n.) The benefice of a vicar.
Unvicar :: Unvicar (v. t.) To deprive of the position or office a vicar.
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment..
Regency :: Regency (a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability..
Regent :: Regent (a.) Exercising vicarious authority.
Regency :: Regency (a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government..
Vicarship :: Vicarship (n.) The office or dignity of a vicar.
Vicarial :: Vicarial (a.) Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power..
Vicarage :: Vicarage (n.) The house or residence of a vicar.
Altarist :: Altarist (n.) A vicar of a church.
Archpriest :: Archpriest (n.) A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean..
Vicariously :: Vicariously (adv.) In a vicarious manner.
Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat
Vicarial :: Vicarial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes..
Regent :: Regent (a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign..
Vicegerent :: Vicegerent (n.) An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation..
Parish :: Parish (n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein..
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