Adjective : vicarial powers. From Dictionary.com.
This region of central North America was now a vicarial preserve. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Crosse, known as the ‘blind vicar,’ had been inattentive to the vicarial claims. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Maybe she, being smart as kithfolk usually were, could get a well-paid position in a guild or in the vicarial bureaucracy. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
While bishops do enjoy an autonomous and not merely vicarial authority coming directly from the Apostles, it can only be excercised together with the primatial papal authority from St. Peter. From Wordnik.com. [Banning even the DISCUSSION of the Motu Proprio?] Reference
The note had been taken up to the vicarage by the footman, and had been brought into the dining-room by the vicarial parlour-maid, just as the three ladies were finishing breakfast, and after the vicar himself had left the room. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
‘There is unfortunately a stain, which is vicarial,’ began Mr Crawley, sustaining up to that point his voice with Roman fortitude — with a fortitude which would have been Roman had it not at that moment broken down under the pressure of human feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
But our Government is altogether conducted on the footing of vicarial responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
Bishop Verot was translated to the See of Savannah, retaining meanwhile vicarial powers over Florida. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
And though Henrys pretenfions premahcadof wcnt no furthcr than to aflume that vicarial the civil cftab - \ •. From Wordnik.com. [Jura Anglorum. The rights of Englishmen] Reference
His predecessor, the venerable John Crosse, known as the 'blind vicar,' had been inattentive to the vicarial claims. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1] Reference
This is vicarial jurisdiction, delegated as to its source, but ordinary as to its exercise, and which would be more accurately termed quasi-ordinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
His lordship here alluded merely to the disposition of the vicarial tithes, and not at all to the care of souls which he was going to put into the young man's hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
Their principal establishment is at St. Boniface, and is now a vicarial house, with thirteen other missions in the archdiocese. these include hospitals, and parochials, boarding, and industrial schools. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Lutherans, 2885 Evangelical Reformed, 44,079 Catholics, 3514 Jews, etc. Dresden is the residence of the vicar Apostolic for Saxony and is the seat of the Catholic ecclesiastical consistory and of the vicarial court. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
The prisoners in the vicarial court now sought to set themselves free, and began by destroying the crossbars with heavy beams; but some shots, which laid two of them dead on the ground, warned them to desist from their attempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11] Reference
It is not necessary, that I should trace this subject farther, or that I should make distinctions relative to tithes, whether they may be rectorial, or vicarial, or whether they may belong to lay persons, I have already developed enough of their history for my purpose. From Wordnik.com. [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference
A vicarial court was created as, with the exception of Rome, the highest court of appeal; it consists of the vicar Apostolic, two ecclesiastical councillors, one secular Catholic councillor, a legal assistant, and in addition for matters pertaining to marriage two Protestant councillors. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
"At Cumnor the parishioners, who paid vicarial tithes, claimed a custom of being entertained at the vicarage on the afternoon of. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
A slave owes to a person in his master's power is not deducted, for instance, where that person is another slave who himself belongs to the peculium; thus, where a slave owes a debt to his own vicarial slave, its amount is not deducted from the peculium. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
Viceroy's, and governor of the vicarial court, were standing on one of the balconies at the moment when the crowd reached the square before the palace, and Masaniello, waving his banner three times before the guard, called out, "Long life to the King of Spain!. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11] Reference
The vicarial court was made the court of appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
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