VICARIOUS
\vɪkˈe͡əɹɪəs], \vɪkˈeəɹɪəs], \v_ɪ_k_ˈeə_ɹ_ɪ__ə_s]\
Definitions of VICARIOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"
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occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation"
By Princeton University
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experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"
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(medicine) occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
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Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
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Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.
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Acting as a substitute; - said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
By Oddity Software
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Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
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Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
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Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.
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Acting as a substitute; - said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
By Noah Webster.
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Acting for another; as, a vicarious agent; performed or suffered in place of another; as, vicarious suffering.
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Vicariously.
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Vicariousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Vicariously.
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Filling the place of another: performed or suffered in place of or for the sake of another.
By Daniel Lyons
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Vicariously.
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Made or performed by substitution.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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