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Synonyms for vicar

Grammar : Noun
Spell : vik-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɪk ər

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Définition of vicar

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French vicaire, from Latin vicarius "substitute, deputy," noun use of adj. vicarius "substituting," from vicis "change, turn, office" (see vicarious). The original notion is of "earthly representative of God or Christ;" but also used in sense of "person acting as parish priest in place of a real parson" (early 14c.).
  • The original Vicar of Bray (in figurative use from 1660s) seems to have been Simon Allen, who held the benefice from c.1540 to 1588, thus serving from the time of Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, and was twice a Catholic and twice a Protestant, but always vicar of Bray. The village is near Maidenhead in Berkshire.
  • noun clergyperson
Example sentences :
  • Katharine, dear, are you going to the vicar's garden party this afternoon?
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • Mrs. Cambray put in a word of hope and fear about Vicar's Dale.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Get me the rector of the parish—a vicar, a curate, something of that sort.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The young men had their House of Commons, with their vicar as Speaker.
  • Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 » by Various
  • I succeeded him as vicar, remaining there from 1870 to 1880.
  • Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 » by Various
  • His father was vicar of St. Michael's there for twenty-seven years.
  • Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 » by Various
  • We were just going to offer our Vicar, but he has no inscription on him.
  • Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 » by Various
  • One of them was the girl of the vicar's pew, grown taller and more winsome.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • Some time in the afternoon he heard the voice and step of the vicar in the room below.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • Perhaps, after all, she had no business in this house—perhaps the vicar was right.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

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