vicarage (age as Ig), vic a rIdge, vycrage

[Eng. vicar; -age.] *1. The condition or state of a substitute or deputy; substitution. "They have sole jurisdiction, and the presbyters only in substitution or vic a ridge ."-Bp. Taylor: Episcopacy A erted, § 50. 2. The benefice of a vicar. "Some vicarages are more liberally, and some more scantily, endowed."-Black stone: Comment ., bk. i., ch. 12. 3. The house or residence of a vicar. vic-ar-ě , subst . [Eng. vicar; -e .] A female vicar. Also used of the wife of a vicar when she has the character of interfering in parish busine . "Mother Austin was afterward vicare several years." -Archæologia , xxviii. 198. vi-cär-i-al, a. [Eng. vicar; -ial.] 1. Of or pertaining to a vicar; small. "In some parishes rectorial, and in some vicarial tithes."- Black stone : Comment., bk. i., ch. 11. 2. Vicarious, delegated. "All derived and vicarial power shall be done away, as no further nece ary." -Black well : Sacred Cla ics , ii. (Pref., p. xxix.) 3. Holding the office of or acting as a vicar. "But the great proprietors of land soon found the inconvenience of a ministry so precarious and distant, intolerable; and obtained for each a resident pastor, either rectorial or vicarial , either an incumbent or a substitute."- Knox : Sermons , vol. vi., ser. 26.