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One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy. [R.]

The benefice of a vicar.

Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.

A vicar. [Obs.] Marston.

Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. Barrow.

Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.

In a vicarious manner.

The office or dignity of a vicar.

A vicar. [Obs.]

To deprive of the position or office a vicar. [R.] Strype.

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).

A vicar of a church.

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.

Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey, [Writting also calif.]

e souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assist a rector or vicar Hook. All this the good old man performed alone, He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden.

Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and most heed. Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. Fuller.

r another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

troy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building. If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony. Blackstone.

To inclose in a chest. Vicars.

To surround as with a hedge. [R.] Vicars.