vicarial

Example Sentences

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But our Government is altogether conducted on the footing of vicarial responsibility.

From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony

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

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne

His predecessor, the venerable John Crosse, known as the ‘blind vicar,’ had been inattentive to the vicarial claims. 

From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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

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

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne