Crossword clues for vicegerent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vicegerent \Vice*ge"rent\, a. [Vice, a. + gerent: cf. F.
viceg['e]rant.]
Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution,
or in the place of another.
--Milton.
Vicegerent \Vice*ge"rent\, n.
An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper
authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a
vicar.
--Bacon.
The symbol and vicegerent of the Deity.
--C. A. Young.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another. n. The official administrative deputy of a ruler or head of state; viceregent.
WordNet
n. someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy
Wikipedia
Vicegerent is the official administrative deputy of a ruler or head of state: vice + gerere .
Usage examples of "vicegerent".
The reigning emperor, though he had usurped the sceptre by treason and murder, immediately assumed the sacred character of vicegerent of the Deity.
It shows God himself creating by regular methods, in natural materials, not by a vicegerent law, not with the anthropomorphitic hands of an external potter.
Vicegerent and General Phoria stood on either side of her, looking equally dour.
The Vicegerent and General Phoria stood on either side of her, looking equally dour.
The bishops were the vicegerents of Christ, the successors of the apostles, and the mystic substitutes of the high priest of the Mosaic law.
Zendecan, and named the Seljukian sultan his temporal vicegerent over the Moslem world.
Can any position be imagined more irritating that that of a careful man of business who is keeper of the purse for a company of heedless enthusiasts professing complete indifference to the value of money, misunderstanding the genius of their chief, and looking out every morning for some sign in the clouds, a prophecy of their immediate appointment as vicegerents of a power that would supersede the awful majesty of the Imperial city?
The bishops were the vicegerents of Christ, the successors of the apostles, and the mystic substitutes of the high priest of the Mosaic law.
There had been Emperors in their line recently, as they never wearied of remembering, Autocrators sealed to their Empire, peer of the apostles, vicegerent of Christ on Earth.
The Arabs indeed might have styled him Khalifah, which signifies a substitute, deputy, or vicegerent.
From the first hour of his mission to the last rites of his funeral, the apostle was never forsaken by a generous friend, whom he delighted to name his brother, his vicegerent, and the faithful Aaron of a second Moses.
But the people, shuddering and horror-stricken, fled in all directions, and talked among themselves of the poor priest who a few weeks before was executed here on this very spot, because he would not recognize the king as the supreme lord of the Church and God's vicegerent.