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

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 A Romance of the Wye 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

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