vicariate

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.ət/

Noun

vicariate (plural vicariates)

The office or authority of a vicar.
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
  His next was to claim, in virtue of this vicariate, the mediatorial “power in heaven and in earth”

Translations

the office or authority of a vicar

Catalan: vicaria (ca) f, vicariat m
French: vicairie (fr) f, vicariat (fr) m
Galician: vigairía f, vicariato m
Italian: vicariato m
Latin: vicāriātus m
Portuguese: vicariato m
Spanish: vicaría (es) f, vicariato m

Adjective

vicariate (comparative more vicariate, superlative most vicariate)

Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vicariate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Italian

Verb

vicariate

inflection of vicariare:
1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

vicariate f pl

feminine plural of vicariato

Anagrams

cariatevi, caviterai, ricaviate

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