vicariate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The office, authority, or district of a vicar.
    — 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.
    — Upon ye late remove of our patriarch's vicar there hath fallen vacant a benefice annexed to ye vicariat.
  3. The office, authority, or district managed by someone appointed as deputy to a secular political leader.
    — If he should chance to fayle, the vicariate of Upper Germany must neades fall upon the Palatin.
形容词 adj.
  1. delegated; relating to a representative; vicarious. archaic,rare
    — To the Bishops of Arles had the Holy See deputed a vicariate power there.

词形变化

vicariates plural more vicariate comparative most vicariate superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
apostolic vicariate vicariate forane
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