vice chamberlain (vis chamber lan)

The deputy of a chamberlain; in the royal house- hold of England, the deputy of the lord cham- berlain. The chamberlains [at Worcester) are annually elected, at the same time as the mayor and aldermen.. Their busine , which is performed by a deputy called a Vice- chamberlain, is to receive the rents and keep all the ac- counts of the corporation. Municip. Corp. Reports, 1835, р. 154. vice-chancellor (vis-chan's el-or), n. The dep- uty or substitute of a chancellor. Specifically- (a) One of three judges in the chancery division of the High Court of Justice in England, holding a separate court, whose decisions are subject to appeal to the lords justices of appeal and to the House of Lords, of which the lord chancellor is head. There is, besides, a vice-chan- cell or of the Court of Chancery in Ireland; the judge of the local Court of Chancery of the Duchy of Lancaster is constable. Sir Ralph Ashton was accordingly appointed Vice -Con- stable hac vice, to exercise all the powers of the Lord High Constable for the particular emergency. J. Gairdner, Richard III., iv. vice-consul (vis-kon's ul), n. One who acts in the place of a consul; a subordinate officer to whom special consular functions are delegated in a district already under the general super- vision of a consul, or to whom consular func- tions are a igned in a district not of sufficient importance to require the presence of a consul. The Europe ans have their vice- consuls and factors here to transact their busine , and letters are brought regu- larly from Alexandria by land, to be sent by boats to Cairo. Pococke, Description of the East, I. 14. vice-consulship (vis-kon's ul-ship), n. [ The vice - consulship was soon after filled. 1. In British cat he- E. H. Yates, Fifty Years of London Life. vice-dean (vis-dēn'), n. drals, a canon annually chosen to represent the dean in his absence. 2. A subdean. vicegerency (vis-je'ren-si), n. [ To the great vicegerency I grew, Being a title as supreme as new. Drayton, Legend of Thomas Cromwell, st. 64. South . Vicegerency and deputation under God. Pope poisoned pope, contending for God's vicegerency. Landor , Imag. Conv., Archdeacon Hare and Landor. Is yonder squalid peasant all That this proud nursery could breed For God's vicegerency and stead? IMG:content-1828.png:[blocks in formation] II. n. An officer deputed by a superior or by proper authority to exercise the powers of the higher authority; one having a delegated power; a deputy; a vicar. All Protestants hold that Christ in his Church hath left no Vicegerent of his Power; but himself without Deputy is the only Head therof, governing it from Heaven. Milton, Free Commonwealth. Distant nations looked on the Pope as the vicegerent of the Almighty, the oracle of the All-wise. Macaulay, Machi a vell i. The temporal sword came too often into collision with the spiritual - the divine vicegerent at Westminster with the divine vicegerent at Rome. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 461. vice-governor (vis-guv'er-nor), n. A deputy governor; a lieutenant-governor. The vice -governor of the islands was invited on one oс- casion to dine on board the "Marchesa." Edinburgh Rev., CLXVI. 322. United States is chosen by the electors at the same time with the President; on the resignation, removal, death, or disability of the latter he succeeds to the office of Presi- dent. He is, unle he has succeeded to the Presidency as above, the presiding officer of the Senate.