The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vicary \Vic"ar*y\, n. [L. vicarius.] A vicar. [Obs.]
Wikipedia
Vicary may refer to:
People with the given name Vicary:
- Vicary Gibbs (1751-1820), English judge and politician
- Vicary Gibbs, 6th Baron Aldenham (born 1948), British peer
- Vicary Gibbs (MP) (1853-1932), British barrister, merchant and Conservative politician
People with the surname Vicary:
- James Vicary (born 1915), American mind control theorist
- Renee Lynn Vicary (1957-2002), American competitive bodybuilder
- Richard Vicary (1918-2006), British artist and printmaker
Usage examples of "vicary".
He heard the young midshipman named Vicary suppress a gasp, and Adam saw that his eyes were wide and fixed, like saucers.
He repeated, in respectful terms, the great loss that would be occasioned to the proprietors by a return to the old prices, and offered to submit a statement of their accounts to the eminent lawyers, Sir Vicary Gibbs and Sir Thomas Plumer.
Silvester, the Recorder of London, being substituted for Sir Francis Baring and Sir Vicary Gibbs.
James Vicary gave a public demonstration of the tachistoscope, a machine for flashing messages on a motion picture screen so fast that they can be read only by the subconscious mind.
Lieutenant Vicary Parris sat in his cabin only half paying attention to the ship noises above and around him.