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Vicariate

Vicariate \Vi*ca"ri*ate\, a. Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.
--Barrow.

Vicariate

Vicariate \Vi*ca"ri*ate\, n. [LL. vicariatus, or F. vicariat.] Delegated office or power; vicarship; the office or oversight of a vicar.

The vicariate of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws devolved on the elector of Saxony.
--Robertson.

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vicariate

a. Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious. n. The office or authority of a vicar.

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vicariate

n. the religious institution under the authority of a vicar [syn: vicarship]

Usage examples of "vicariate".

First thought: to make the territory of all three hordes a Vicariate Apostolic was to abolish the de facto status of the Jackrabbit Horde as missioners of the Texark Archdiocese.

I wrote to Bishop Wiseman, in whose Vicariate I found myself, to announce my conversion, I could find nothing better to say to him, than that I would obey the Pope as I had obeyed my own Bishop in the Anglican Church.

To His Most Reverend Eminence, Sir Eric Cardinal Hoffstraff, Vicar Apostolic Designate, Provisional Vicariate Extraterrestris, Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, Vatican, New Rome .

To His Most Reverend Eminence, Sir Eric Cardinal Hoffstraff, Vicar Apostolic Designate, Provisional Vicariate Extraterrestris, Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, Vatican, New Rome.