[VICE-.] One who rules as the representative of a king; a viceroy. Also attrib.
1579. in Hakluyt, Voy. (1600), III. 739. In coasting along the Island of Mutyr, belonging to the King of Ternate, his Deputie or Vice-king … came with his Canoa to vs.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 132. Vnder his protection we went vp and downe the Citie, as if we had beene so many Vice-Kings of the Country.
1659. Baxter, Key Cath., xlii. 300. A Deputy, or Vice-King in Ireland. Ibid. (1681), Acc. Sherlocke, vi. 210. There is no need of a Vice King to make this a Kingdom.
1681–6. J. Scott, Chr. Life (1747), III. 562. So that now he is subject to the Father in the Capacity of a Vice-King to a supreme Sovereign.
1800. Hist. Ind., in Asiat. Ann. Reg., 24/2. He appointed Don Francis D’Almeyda, Governor-general, with the pompous title of Vice King of the Indies.
1848. Lytton, Harold, III. iii. 99. Farther still down the hall are the great civil lords and vice-king vassals of the ‘Lord Paramount.’
1876. Tennyson, Harold, II. ii. Thou shalt be verily king—all but the name—For I shall most sojourn in Normandy; And thou be my vice-king in England.
