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- English Word Vicarious Definition Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
- English Word Vicarious Definition Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.
- English Word Vicarious Definition Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
- English Word Vicariously Definition In a vicarious manner.
- English Word Vicarship Definition The office or dignity of a vicar.
- English Word Vicary Definition A vicar.
- English Word Vice Definition A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
- English Word Vice Definition A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
- English Word Vice Definition The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
- English Word Vice Definition A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
- English Word Vice Definition A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- English Word Vice Definition A gripe or grasp.
- English Word Vice Definition To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
- English Word Vice Definition In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
- English Word Vice Definition Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
- English Word Vice-regal Definition Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty.
- English Word Viced Definition of Vice
- English Word Viced Definition Vicious; corrupt.
- English Word Vicegerency Definition The office of a vicegerent.
- English Word Vicegerent Definition Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.
- English Word Vicegerent Definition Having or exercising delegated power; acting by substitution, or in the place of another.
- English Word Vicegerent Definition An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar.
- English Word Viceman Definition A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.
- English Word Vicemen Definition of Viceman
- English Word Vicenary Definition Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.
- English Word Vicennial Definition Lasting or comprising twenty years.
- English Word Vicennial Definition Happening once in twenty years; as, a vicennial celebration.
- English Word Viceroy Definition The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.
- English Word Viceroy Definition A large and handsome American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
- English Word Viceroyalty Definition The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.