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Definition of Vicarious

1. Adjective. Experienced at secondhand. "Read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"

2. Adjective. Occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function. "Vicarious menstruation"

3. Adjective. Suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another. "Vicarious atonement"

Definition of Vicarious

1. a. Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.

2. a. Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.

Definition of Vicarious

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Vicarious

1. 1. Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority. 2. Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer. "The soul in the body is but a subordinate efficient, and vicarious . . . In the hands of the Almighty." (Sir M. Hale) 3. Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment. "The vicarious work of the Great Deliverer." (I. Taylor) 4. Acting as a substitute; said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation. Origin: L. Vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin to Gr. To yield, give way, G. Wechsel a change, and probably also to E. Weak. See Weak, and cf. Vice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Vicarious

vicar-general vicarage vicarages vicarate vicarates vicaress vicarial vicariance vicariances vicariant

vicariants vicariate vicariates vicaries vicarious (current term) vicarious (current term) vicariously vicariousness vicariousnesses vicarious hypertrophy

vicarly vicars vicarship vicarships vicary vicar apostolic Vicar of Christ Vicat needle Viccinium membranaceum Viccinium myrtillus

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