▪ I. † ˈvicary, n.1 Obs.
Forms: α. 4–5 vicarie (4 vik-), -arye, 4–6 vycary (4 -arye), 4–7 vicary (5 -ari), 6 vykary. β. 4–5 vicori(e, viccorie; 4 vycory, 4–5 vicory, vecory, 5 vicorye. γ. 4 vi(c)kery, 5 vekery.
[ad. L. vicāri-us vicar.]
1. = vicar 1 and 1 b.
| 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 11789 Þe prest ys crystys vycarye. 1338 ― Chron. (1810) 283 No man has powere þer of to deme no wirke, Withoute þe pape of Rome, Gode's vicarie. c 1381 Chaucer Parl. Foules 379 Nature, vicarye o the almyghty lord. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xv. 70 Cleregie is cristes vikery to conforte and to curen. 1502 Arnolde Chron. (1811) 159 Unto the most holyest and fauorablist Prince in erthe, Vicary and Lieftenaunt of Cryst. 1529 More Dyaloge ii. Wks. 179/2 The Pope which is vnder Christ vycary & the head of our churche. |
2. = vicar 2.
| α 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 11607 Alle prestes haue nat powere..to assoyle þe..But hyt be þy parysshe preste.., Or at þy parsone or vycary. c 1330 ― Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5775 To parsones & to vicaries Was graunted grete seignuryes. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. Prol. 22 (Corpus), Sire Preest, quod he, art þou a vicary Or art þou a person? say soþ, by þy fey. 1417 E.E. Wills (1882) 28 Sir Iohn Dey, parsone of Bageworthe,..sir Edward Osbourne, vicary of Thornecombe. 1463 in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 200 The same writinges I send you nowe by the vicarye of Porestoke. c 1502 Joseph Arim. 253 The vykary of welles, that thyder had sought,..Released he was of part of his infyrmyte. a 1529 Skelton Col. Cloute 572 Of persons and vycaryes They make many outcryes. 1538 North Country Wills (Surtees, 1908) 158 To the vicarye of Willoby a mortuary. |
| β, γ 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 407 Thanne is many man ylost, quod a lewed vycory. 1406 E.E. Wills (1882) 12 Y wyt to the vekery of the same Kyrke xij d. 1426 Audelay Poems 16 Alas he ner a parsun or a vecory. c 1450 Chron. London (Kingsford, 1905) 134 Ther was a prest of thaksted, that whas vicory some tyme, whas brent in Smythfelde. 1479 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 421 The Maire..and the Vicorye and the Propters [sic] with them. |
3. = vicar 3.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 465 For those men fleynge the laboure of the qwere..ordeynede vicaryes to occupye theire places. 1505 Will R. Gybbys 26 March (Prerog. Crt. Canterb.), Alsoe to Owen Parsons my rose cuppe..; but if he shold dye, thenne to my brethren the Vicaries of the Quere. |
4. = vicar 4.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 243 He ȝaf to þe pope, Peter his vicary, a rente by þe ȝere of everich hous of þe kyngdom. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xiii. (1869) 8 A maister j sigh fasteby that seemede to be a vicarie of aaron or of moyses. |
5. = vicar 5.
| ? 14.. S. Eng. Legendary (MS. Bodl. 779) in Herrig Archiv LXXXII. 383/57 To myssian þe vecory þey were betake anon, Þat he hem cholde make here sacrefise to don. 1422 Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 214 Whan thou haste mestere to the Service of ten thousand men, thou cal a gouernoure, and hym shal Serve ten vicaries, and wyth euery vicarie shall cvm ten leders. 1491 Caxton Vitas Patr. i. clviii. (1495) 166/2 One of the sayd chyldren was made Senatour of Rome; the other Consul of Cartage, and thother vycarye in Affryque. 1648 Hunting of Fox (1649) 8 Yet this [council of state] is not our new intended King;..this is but his vicary. |
▪ II. † ˈvicary, n.2 Obs.
Also 5 wycari, 6 vicarye.
[a. AF. and OF. vicarie (vikarie), or ad. med.L. vicāria, f. L. vicārius vicar.]
The office or position of a vicar; a benefice held by a vicar.
| c 1420 in Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 119 note, Forasmuch as I am enfourmed that there is a vicary voide w{supt}in your College of Hemmynburgh..I pray yow w{supt} all myn hert that ye will graunte hym the seid vicary. c 1450 Godstow Reg. 437 The lond of the vicary of seynt Gyle..without the north gate of Oxenford. Ibid. 580 Longyng..to the said chirch of Seynt Petir by the reson of the vicary. 1483 Cath. Angl. 401/2 A wycari,..vicaria. 1563 Becon Reliques of Rome 254 Houses of holy church, graunges, personages, or vicaries, or any maneries of men of holy church. 1598 Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. (1599) 185 By chance..[he] Hath got the farme of some gelt vicary. 1612 R. Sheldon Serm. St. Martins 4 The ambitious Bishop and Monarch of Rome..in his pretended Vicary for the Messias. 1712 Lond. Gaz. No. 5079/3 The Vicary, part of Killcrusaper Tythes. |
▪ III. † ˈvicary, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. vicāri-us.]
Vicarious; delegated.
| c 1400 Apol. Loll. 85 If ymagis be worschipid, not bi vicary worschip, but by þe same worschip of God, doutles it is idolatrie. 1660 J. Lloyd Prim. Episc. 25 Putting the hand and seal of his highest Vicary authority, as God's Vicegerent, to the resolves of the subordinate Vicary authority of the Vicegerents of our blessed Mediator..Jesus Christ. |