vice principal (visprinsipal)

A deputy or a istant principal: as, the vice - principal of an academy. vice-queen (vis-kwēn'), n. A woman who rules as the substitute or deputy of a king or of a queen; a viceroy's wife. See vice - king. [Rare.] [It was] their [the Marquis and Marchione of Lorne's] common wish that they should proceed to India as Viceroy and Vice queen; but there were political objections to the step. T. H. S. Escott, Society in London, I. 11. vice-rector (vis-rek'tor), n. [ML. vice rector; as vice-+ rector.] A deputy or a istant rector. Wesel was one of the profe ors at Erfurt between 1445 and 1456, and was vice - rector in 1458. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 503. viceregal (vis-rē'gal), a. Of or relating to a viceroy or viceroyalty: as, viceregal power. In Manitoba there are separate Roman Catholic schools, and these might be protected under the same statute [British North America Act] by the Viceregal veto. Sir C. W. Dilke, Probs. of Greater Britain, i. 2. vice-regent (vis-rē'jent), a. and n. I. a. Of or pertaining to, or occupying the position of, a vice-regent. The Emperor's own will or that of the gent Chancellor is the real centre and source of all policy; the heads of department are ministers of that will. W. Wilson, The State, § 1149. II. n. A deputy regent; one who acts in the place of a ruler, governor, or sovereign. The five Ephors (or Overseers, for such is the meaning of the title) were originally mere deputies of the kings, ap- pointed to a ist them in the performance of their judicial duties, to act as vice - regents in the absence of their royal principals:. in short, to serve in all things as the as- sistants of the kings. W. Wilson, The State, § 104. viceroy (vis'roi), n. [ This Cittie [Caer, Cairo] standeth in the land of Egipt, and is under the gouernment of the great Turke. And there is a king ouer the saide Cittie, who is called the king of the great Caer, and ye Wize Roy or Lief tenant to the great Turke. E. Webbe, Travels (ed. Arber), p. 21. We are so far from having a king that even the viceroy is generally absent four fifths of his time. Swift. 2. The arc hippus, a handsomely colored Amer- ican butterfly, Basilar chia arc hippus, formerly known as Limen it is disippus. It is orange-red with viceroy black markings. Its larva feeds on willow, poplar, and plum, and hibernates in leaf-rolls. It mimics in the adult state (supposably for protection) the large cosmopolitan Anosia plexippus. See cut under disippus. S. H. Scudder. vice royal (vis-roi'al), a. [ A vice royal government was expre ly created for it [Buenos Ayres, in 1777]. Mrs. Horace Mann, Life in the Argentine Repub., p. 122. viceroyalty (vis-roi'al-ti), n. [ F.viceroyauté; as vice royal + -ty. ] The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy. Add is on. Upon the question of the Viceroyalty there might be a difference of opinion. Nineteenth Century , XIX. 38.