a. Obs. [ad. L. urbicāri-us, f. urbicus URBIC a.] (See quots. and SUBURBICARY a.)
1683. Cave, Govt. Anc. Ch., 261. The Roman Bishop began to extend his jurisdiction commensurate to the urbicary diocess, within which his metropolitical was swallowed up.
1725. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. v. 151. They gave the Name of Urbicary or Suburbicary, to all the Provinces which depended upon the Jurisdiction of the Vicar of Rome.
1728. Chambers, Cycl. (1738), s.v. Suburbicary, Those provinces of Italy, &c., which composed the antient diocese, or patriarchate, of Rome,… were also sometimes called urbicary provinces.
