vicariate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.ət/

Noun

vicariate (plural vicariates)

1. (Christianity) The office, authority, or district 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. […], volumes (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”

2. The office, authority, or district held by a person as deputy for a bishop, or similar ecclesiastical authority.
   • 1611, Sir D. Carleton, Letter in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I.:

     Upon ye late remove of our patriarch's vicar there hath fallen vacant a benefice annexed to ye vicariat.

   • 1725, Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C.:

     Vigilius gave his Vicariate to this Arch-Bishop in the Provinces.

   • 1773, A. Butler, Lives of Saints:

     St. Charles established a vicariat, that things might be done with deliberation and counsel, which many other bishops imitated.

3. The office, authority, or district managed by someone appointed as deputy to a secular political leader.
   • 1619, F. Cottington, Letters in Eng. & Germ.:

     If he should chance to fayle, the vicariate of Upper Germany must neades fall upon the Palatin.

   • 1711, London Gazette:

     He has accepted and taken upon him‥his part of the Vicariate of the Empire during the present Vacancy.

   • 1769, Robertson, Chas. V, ii. Wks.:

     The vicariat of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws, devolved to the elector of Saxony.

Derived terms

• apostolic vicariate
• vicariate forane

 

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)

1. (archaic, rare) delegated; relating to a representative; vicarious.
   • 1849, Daniel Rock, The Church of Our Fathers:

     To the Bishops of Arles had the Holy See deputed a vicariate power there.

References

• “vicariate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

vicariate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

vicariate f pl

1. feminine plural of vicariato

Anagrams

• cariatevi, caviterai, ricaviate