Vicar

['vɪkə] or ['vɪkɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.

(noun.) (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish.

(noun.) (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel.

艾德蒙編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

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

(n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.

珍妮特編輯

解釋/意思:

n. one who holds authority as the delegate or substitute of another: a parson of a parish where the tithes are impropriate to a layman or to a chapter he receiving only the smaller tithes or a salary: (R.C. Church) a bishop's assistant who exercises jurisdiction in his name.—ns. Vic′arāge the benefice or residence of a vicar; Vic′ar-apostol′ic (formerly one to whom the pope delegated some remote portion of his jurisdiction) now usually a titular bishop appointed to a country where either no sees have been formed or the episcopal succession has been broken; Vic′ar-chō′ral an assistant cleric or lay at an English cathedral esp. in connection with the music; Vic′ar-forāne′ an ecclesiastic to whom a bishop gives a limited jurisdiction in a town or district of his diocese—in effect a rural dean; Vic′ar-gen′eral an official performing the work of an archdeacon under the bishop: in the English Church an officer assisting the bishop the chancellor of the diocese.—adjs. Vīcā′rial pertaining to a vicar: substituted; Vīcā′riāte having vicarious or delegated power.—n. (also Vic′arāte) vicarship delegated power.—adj. Vīcā′rious filling the place of another: performed or suffered in place of or for the sake of another.—adv. Vīcā′riously.—ns. Vīcā′riousness; Vīcā′rius a vicar; Vic′arship the office of a vicar; Vic′ary a vicarage.—Vicarious sacrifice (theol.) the suffering of Christ accepted by God in lieu of the punishment to which guilty man is liable.—Vicar-of-Bray one who turns his coat without difficulty to suit the times—from Simon Aleyn who kept the vicarage of Bray from 1540 to 1588 during the reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Mary and Elizabeth; Vicar of Christ a title assumed by the pope who claims to be the representative of Christ on earth as the head of His Church.

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