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.

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c. 1420.  in Test. Ebor. (Surtees), II. 119, note. Forasmuch as I am enfourmed that there is a vicary voide wtin your College of Hemmynburgh … I pray yow wt all myn hert that ye will graunte hym the seid vicary.

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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.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 401/2. A wycari,… vicaria.

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1563.  Becon, Reliques of Rome, 254. Houses of holy church, graunges, personages, or vicaries, or any maneries of men of holy church.

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1598.  Marston, Sco. Villanie, I. iii. (1599), 185. By chance … [he] Hath got the farme of some gelt vicary.

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1612.  R. Sheldon, Serm. St. Martins, 4. The ambitious Bishop and Monarch of Rome … in his pretended Vicary for the Messias.

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1712.  Lond. Gaz., No. 5079/3. The Vicary, part of Killcrusaper Tythes.

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