rare. Also 7 vicariat. [f. L. vicāri-us + -ATE2, or attrib. use of prec.] Pertaining to, characteristic of, a deputy or representative; delegated.
1619. Naunton, in Eng. & Germ. (Camden), 33. Such strength and forces as may … enable him to maintaine the vicariat dignitie when it shall fall uppon him.
a. 1677. Barrow, Pope’s Suprem., vi. Wks. 1687, I. 261. We thought it convenient that you should be held up by the vicariat authority of our See.
1849. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, II. vi. 137. To the Bishops of Arles had the Holy See deputed a vicariate power there.
