vicariate

• IPA^(key): /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.ət/

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.

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.

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

vicariate

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

vicariate f pl

1. feminine plural of vicariato

• cariatevi, caviterai, ricaviate