vicarial

Example Sentences

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I don't suppose such vicarial piety will avail much, but the petitions come out of a sincere breast, from innocent lips.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

For this reason his vicarial representative can plead scores of excuses for presenting himself at "The Court."

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

Think of the evil that man meant--how he tried to trip up the heels of Tuscany, establish a precarious vicarial existence for the Romagna, and plots now at Naples.

From Lady John Russell by

Another instance of a clergyman going to law with his parishioners was that of the Rev. John Benison, vicar of Burton, who was dissatisfied with the payments of the vicarial revenues.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

He extended his vicarial authority into a virtual sovereignty of the Lombard towns, acknowledging only the German Emperor as his feudal lord.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various