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Blackstone. — [vicarius, Lat.] Vicarious.—That delegated 
vicarial sceptre of righteousness. West. 
VICA'RIATE, s. Delegated office or power.—Shall we 
think that pretended spiritual dignity to be of God, (or, as 
it calleth itself, the vicariate of Christ,) who said his king¬ 
dom was not of this world, and whose successors gloried in 
poverty and martyrdom; whereas this [the church of Rome] 
aboundeth in riches and exterior power above any thing 
now extant in the Christian world? Ld. North. 
VICA'RIATE, adj. Having a delegated power as vicar. 
—We thought it convenient that you should be held up by 
the vicariate authority of our see. Barrow. 
VICA'RJOUS, adj. [vicarins, Lat.] Deputed; dele¬ 
gated ; acting in tiie place of another.—What can be more 
unnatural, than for a man to rebel against the vicarious 
power of God in his soul ? Norris. 
VICA'RIOUSLY, adv. In the place of another.—They 
who do not love religion, hate it. The rebels to God per¬ 
fectly abhor the author of their being. They hate him 
“ with all their heart, with all their mind, with all their soul, 
and with all their strength.” He never presents himself to 
their thoughts, but to menace and alarm them. They can¬ 
not strike the sun out of heaven, but they are able to raise a 
smouldering smoke that obscures him from their own eyes. 
Not being able to revenge themselves on God, they have a 
delight in vicariously defacing, degrading, torturing, and 
tearing in pieces, his image in man. Burke. 
VECARSHIP, s. The office of a vicar.—The see of Je¬ 
rusalem was the mother of all churches, wherein St. Peter 
himself did at first reside, exercising his vicarship. Barrow. 
VICE, s. [vitium, Lat.] The course of action opposite 
to virtue; depravity of manners; inordinate life. 
No spirit more gross to love 
Vice for itself. Milton. 
A fault; an offence. It is generally used for an habitual 
fault, not for a single enormity. 
No vice, so simple, but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on its outward parts. Shakspeare. 
Faulty or noxious excess. 
Or, when the latent vice is cur’d by fire. 
Redundant humours by the pores expire. Dry den. 
The fool of the old shows and moralities. 
I’ll be with you again 
In a trice, like to the old vice. 
Your need to sustain; 
Who with dagger of lath, in his rage and his wrath, 
Cries, ah, ha! to the devil. Shakspeare. 
[ vijs, Dutch; from vijzen, to screw up.] A kind of 
small iron press with screws, used by workmen.—He found 
that marbles taught him percussion ; bottle-screws the vice; 
whirligigs, the axis in peritrochio. Arbuthnot. —Gripe; 
grasp.—If I but fist him once; if he come but within my 
vice. Shakspeare. — [vice, Latin.] It is used in compo¬ 
sition for one, qui vicem gerit, who performs, in his stead, 
the office of a superior, or who has the second rank in com¬ 
mand : as, a viceroy, vicechancellor. 
To VICE, v. a. To draw by a kind of violence. 
With all confidence he swears, 
As he had seen’t or been an instrument 
To vice you to’t, that you have touch’d his queen 
Forbiddenly. Shakspeare. 
VICEA'DMIRAL, s. The second commander of a fleet. 
—The foremost of the fleet was the admiral: the rearadmiral 
was Cara Mahometes, an arch-pirate. The viceadmiral, in 
the middle of the fleet with a great squadron of gallies, 
struck sail directly. Knolles. —A naval officer of the second 
VICEA'DMIRALTY, s. The office of a viceadmiral.— 
The viceadmiralty is exercised by Mr. Trevanion. Carew. 
VICEA'GENT, s. One who acts in the place of another. 
—A vassal Satan hath made his viceagent , to cross whatever 
the faithful ought to do. flooker. 
Vox.. XXIV. No. 1643. 
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VICECHA'NCELLOR, s. [vicccancellarius, Lat.] The 
second or sub-chancellor 
VI'CED, adj. Vitious; corrupt. Not used. 
Be as a planetary plague, when Jove 
Will o’er some high-zffcW city hang his poison 
In the sick air. Shakspeare. 
VICEGE'RENCY, s. The office of a vicegerent; lieu¬ 
tenancy ; deputed power.—The authority of conscience 
stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under 
God. South. 
VICEGE'RENT, s. [vicem gerens, Lat.] A lieutenant; 
one who is intrusted with the power of the superior, by whom 
he is deputed. 
Great father of the gods, when for our crimes 
Thou send’st some heavy judgment on the times; 
Some tyrant king, the terror of his age, 
The type and true vicegerent of thy rage. 
Thus punish. Dry den: 
VICEGE'RENT, adj. [yicegerens, Latin.] Having a 
delegated power; acting by substitution. 
Whom send I to judge thee ? Whom but thee. 
Vicegerent son! To thee I have transferr’d 
All judgment, whether in heaven, or earth, or hell. Milton. 
VI'CENARY, adj. [vicenarius, Lat.] Belonging to 
twenty. Bailey. 
VICENTE, St., a province and captaincy of Brazil, boun¬ 
ded north and east by Rio Janeiro and the sea, and west 
by the Rio Grande. It is three hundred miles from north to 
south, and its breadth is in some places near 180.—2. A 
city of Brazil, in the above province, and once the capital. 
Its present population may be reckoned at 3000. Lat. 24. S. 
—3. A settlement of New Granada, in South America, in 
the province of Maracaibo.—4. A settlement of Peru, in the 
province of Chichas and Tariga.—5. A small and secure 
port on the coast of Chili, and province of Quillota, situated 
behind the bay of Conception.—6. A cape or point of land 
on the coast of Terra del Fuego, in the strait of Magellan. 
—7. A cape on the south coast of the strait of Magellan. 
VICENTE GUTAYAYTA, St., a town of Peru, in the 
diocese of La Plata; 40 miles north-east of Lipes. 
VICENZA, a province of Austrian Italy, in the govern¬ 
ment of Venice, containing, on a superficial extent of less 
than 1000 square miles, above 310,000 inhabitants. 
VICENZA, a large town of Austrian Italy, the capital of 
the delegation of the same name, pleasantly situated between 
two mountains, at the confluence of two rivers, one of which 
divides the town into two parts, connected together by 
bridges. It was a Roman station, and suffered greatly on 
the irruption of the northern tribes. During the middle 
ages, it had at times an independent government, but passed 
in the beginning of the 15th century, into the hands of the 
Venetians, remaining in the enjoyment of peace until the 
invasion of Italy by Buonaparte in 1796; 36 miles west-by¬ 
north of Venice. 
VI'CEROY, s. [viceroi, Fr.] He who governs in place 
of the king with regal authority. 
Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquish’d, 
Detract so much from that prerogative, 
As to be call’d but viceroy of the whole ? Shakspeare. 
VICERO'YALTY, s. Dignity of a viceroy.—These parts 
furnish out viceroyalties for the grandees; but in war are 
incumbrances to the kingdom. Addison. 
VI'CEROYSHIP, s. Office of a viceroy.—The Saraeen 
caliph commanded in Egypt; under whom, two great lords 
fell out about the sultanie or viceroyship of that land. 
Fuller. 
VI'CETY, s. [This word is of doubtful origin.] Nicety 
exactness. A word not used. 
Here is to the fruit of Pern, 
Grafted upon Stub his stem ; 
With the peakish nicety. 
And old Sherewood’s vicety. B. Jonson. 
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