[VICE-. So F. vice-président, It., Sp., and Pg. vicepresidente.] One who acts as the representative or deputy of a president (in various senses); an official ranking immediately below a president.
1574. trans. Marlorat’s Apocalips, 66. Under Sergius the Vice-president of Asia … ther arose a great strife … about the keeping of the Easter.
1586. in J. Morris, Troubles Cath. Forefathers (1877), 84. The Lord Evers sitting as vice-president with Meares, Hurlstone, Cheeke, and the rest.
1629. Wadsworth, Pilgr., vii. 64. This North was created D.D. in Paris, and was sometimes Vice-President of the Colledge of Doway.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 235. The President, or Vice-president of the Queens Councell established in the North.
1771. Goldsm., Hist. Eng. (1789), IV. 18. The college [Magdalen, Oxford] was filled with catholics; and Charnock … was made vice-president.
1796. T. Twining, Trav. India, etc. (1893), 54. The Vice-President always breakfasted in his own room.
1800. St. Papers, in Asiat. Ann. Reg., 6/2. That nothing … shall prevent such Governor, when absent, from nominating a Vice-President and Deputy-Governor of Fort William.
1841. W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., III. 57. Melzi d’Eril was vice-president: and in the Council of State were found Serbelloni [etc.].
1855. Poultry Chron., III. 411/1. The society consists of a president, vice-president, committee, secretary, and members.
1874. Bancroft, Footpr. Time, ii. 234. The Vice-President becomes an officer of much power or dignity.
Hence Vice-presidential a.; Vice-presidentship. Also Vice-presidency.
1690. Lond. Gaz., No. 2600/1. The Vice-Presidentship of the Council of Arragon.
1804. G. Rose, Diaries (1860), II. 132. I would accept the Vice-Presidentship of the Board of Trade.
1833. Story, Comm. Constit. U.S., III. 336. Suppose there should be three candidates for the presidency, and two for the vice-presidency.
1889. W. Wilson, State, § 1099 (1893), 562. Each party … nominates the candidates of its choice for the presidency and vice-presidency.
1904. Daily Chron., 20 June, 5/6. There has never before been so pronounced a reluctance to accept the vice-presidential nomination.
