What is "vicars"

Usage examples of "vicars".

And the full-blown rectors and vicars, with full-blown tithes--with tithes when too full-blown for strict utilitarian principles--will necessarily follow.

The vicars choral did not hang upon his words as they had been wont to do, and the minor canons smiled in return to his smile less obsequiously when they met him in the clerical circles of Barchester.