vicarship (vikarship)

[ The vykary of welles, that thyder had sought On the tenth day, that many men dyd se, Where.iiii. yere afore he stande nor go mought, Released he was of part of his infyrmyte. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 45. "Sir preest," quod he, "artow a vicary , Or art a person? sey sooth, by my fey!" Chaucer , Prol. to Parson's Tale, 1. 22. vicary2 (vik'a-ri), n. [ vicar + -y3.] A vicarage: the quotation refers to the once common practice of the patron's pocketing the best part of the vicar's income. Pale Maurus paid huge simonies For his half dozen gelded vicaries. Marston, Scourge of Villainy, v. 65. vicel (vis), n. [ vice , vyce , vice , F. vice = Sp . sp. Sp. Pg . Pg. vicio = It. vizio , vicium , a vice, fault; root uncertain. Hence ult. vie vicious, vitiate.] 1. Fault; mistake; error: as, a vice of method. He with a manly voys seith his me age, Withouten vice of sillable or of lettre. Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 93. 2. An imperfection; a defect; a blemish: as, a vice of conformation; a vice of literary style. Myda hadde under his longe heres, Growynge upon his heed, two a es eres, The which vice he hidde as he best myghte. Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 99. Euen so pars i monie and illiberal i tie are greater vices in a Prince than in a priuate person. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 34. To be wanting therefore in those principal affections which respect the good of the whole constitution must be a vice and imperfection. Shaftesbury , Inquiry, II. i. § 3. Ferocity and insolence were not among the vices of the national character. Macaulay , Machi a vell i. 3. Any immoral or evil habit or practice; evil conduct in which a person indulges; a particular form of wickedne or depravity; immorality; specifically, the indulgence of impure or degrading appetites or pa ions: as, the vice of drunkenne ; hence, also, a fault or bad trick in a lower animal, as a horse. This Baron was right wise, and full of euell vyces . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 51. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 325. When vices become so notorious that they are a reproach and a by-word to Neighbour Nations. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. iv. Vices so splendid and alluring as to resemble virtues. Macaulay , Hallam's Const. Hist. Him as had no wice , and was so free from temper that a infant might ha' drove him. Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock, Conclusion. Reared under an open shed, and early habituated to the sight of men, to the sound and glitter of weapons, and to all the acce ories of human life, the colt grows up free from vice or timidity. W. G. Palgrave. 4. Depravity; corruption of morals or manners: in a collective sense and without a plural: as, an age of vice. Be dilligent for to detecte a seruaunt gyven to vyce. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 84. Vice is the foulest Prison, and in this Not John, but Herod the close Pris'ner is. J. Beaumont , Psyche, iii. 167. Virtue is the Good and Vice the Ill of every one. Shaftesbury , Inquiry, II. ii. § 1. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Add is on, Cato, iv. 4. Civilisation has on the whole been more succe ful in repre ing crime than in repre ing vice . Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 157. 5. Depravity or corruption of the physical organization; some morbid state of the system: as, he inherited a constitutional vice which resulted in consumption.-6. Viciousne ; ugline ; mischievousne . Half the vice of the Slogger's hitting is neutralized, for he daren't lunge out freely for fear of exposing his sides. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 5. IMG:content-1825.png:[blocks in formation] Now i ued in from the reareward madam Vice, or old Iniquitie, with a lath dagger painted, according to the fashion of old Vice in a comedy. Owle's Almanacke (1618), p. 12. ( Nares .) When every great man had his Vice stand by him In his long coat, shaking his wooden dagger. IMG:content-1826.png:[blocks in formation] vice-king (vis-king'), n. One who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy. I shall most sojourn in Normandy; And thou be my vice - king in England. I. tarried out the whole Act in St. Marie's, the long speeches of the Proctors, the Vice - Chancellor , the sever all Profe ors. Evelyn , Diary, July 10, 1654. I have received your Letter, with the enclosed from the Vice - Chan cell our and Heads of your famous University, myself an unfit object in such manner to be saluted by deputy legate. Smollett . such reverend persons. Thomas Adams , in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 147. viceman, n. See viseman . About that time, Tamasese, the vice - king , became prom- inent as a rebel. The Century , XXXVIII. 24. A subordinate or =Syn. 3 and 4. Iniquity, etc. See crime. vice2, n. and v. See visel.