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vicarage|ˈvɪkərɪdʒ|
Forms: 5 viker(i)age, vicerege; 5– vicarage, 6 viccar-, vyc(c)ar-, Sc. wicar-, vicrage, 7 vicaradge; 5 vycary-, 5–6 vicariage; 5–7 vicarege, 6–7 -edge, -ige, 6–8 -idge, 7 viccari(d)ge.
[f. vicar + -age.]
1. a. The benefice or living of a vicar.
1425Rolls of Parlt. IV. 290/2 That they holde residence opon thaire Parsonages, Vikerages, and Hospitalites, opon payn of lesyng the valeu of thaire Benefice. c1438Ld. Clifford in Finchale Priory (Surtees) 71 There is a vicerege in Craven..of the which the presentacion longith to you. 1459Rolls of Parlt. V. 365 The advouson of the Vicariage of the same. 1536Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 98 Factouris as thai allegit to the vyccarage of Mwnkland. 1589Cooper Admon. 47 That of Euans concerning the Vicarage of Warwike, is maliciously reported. 1631High Commission Cases (Camden) 246 He was charged with the simonaicall resignation and bestowing of his viccaridge of Castor upon a young man, a minister. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 206 Tythes appertaining to Parish-Churches, Prebends, Hospitals, Vicaredges. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 91 We meet with no such early records that make them distinct and proper Vicariges. 1729Swift Libel on Dr. Delany 132 The offals of a church distrest; A hungry vicarage at best. 1749Pote Hist. & Antiq. Windsor 12 It is a Vicaridge in the Deanery of Reading and Diocess of Salisbury. 1815Jane Austen Emma iv, Though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. vii. 700 The hereditaments of the Crown (except advowsons and vicarages). 1884Manch. Exam. 14 May 5/3 The plaintiff, a clergyman, who at one time had a vicarage at Bow.
transf.1587Holinshed Chron. (ed. 2) III. 558/1 The three peruerse prelats..stroue togither for the sacred see of papasie Gods vicarage. 1653H. Whistler Upshot Inf. Baptisme 2 Whether they were redeemed by the Vicarage of a Levite, or by a ransome.
†b. A benefice attached to a parsonage. Obs.—1
1501Reg. Privy Seal Scotl. I. 98 The parsonage of Sanct Colinez Kirk..with the annexis and vicaragis thairof, that is to say, Kilmolowok in Rasay and Kilmory in Walternes.
†2. A college of vicars. Obs.
1485in Ripon Chapter Acts (Surtees) 277, I will that my messebuke be gyffyn to the vicarage in Rypon. 1505Ibid. 304 The said mese..goo to the vicarege of Ripon, they doynge therfor a yerely obbett.
3. The house or residence of a vicar; also, those who live in this.
1530Palsgr. 285/1 Vycrage a preestes house, presbytoire. 1611Cotgr., Presbitere, a Parsonage, Vicarage, or Priests house. 1612Peacham Gentl. Exerc. iii. 157 The ancient coate of Bassingborne, which by chance I found in a window at the Vicaredge in Fulham. 1820Praed Poems (1864) II. 136 The traveller was to blame And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. 1891‘S. Mostyn’ Curatica 150, I had bidden the Vicarage farewell the night before.
†4. Sc. A (or the) payment due to a vicar; vicarial tithes or other dues. Obs.
1579Munim. de Melros (Bann. Cl.) 653 Þe teind schevis..with small teindis and Viccaragis pertenand to þe saming Kirk. 1595in Maitland Club Misc. I. 73 The amount and quantitie of the vicarages of the said benefices, with the glebbis and mansis. 1684Rec. Baron Crt. Stitchill (S.H.S.) 95 For not paying of Vicaradge at Mertimas, which..the Judge decerns them to pay punctually. 1762in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874) 92 The town and lands of Kinnaird and the lands of Tullybeagles with the tiends parsonage and vicarage of the saids haill lands. 1775L. Shaw Hist. Moray 353 The Stipend is 80 Bolls of Victual, and about L. 50 of Vicarage. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. viii, What have I been paying stipend and teind, parsonage and vicarage, for?
†5. The position, office, or duties of a vicar or representative. Obs. rare.
1622Donne Serm. John xi. 35 My vicarage is to speak of his [Christ's] compassion and his tears. 1642Jer. Taylor Episc. §37. 264 This whole discourse showes..that they [the Bishops] have sole jurisdiction, and the Presbyters only in substitution and vicaridge. 1734Bp. Petre in E. H. Burton Life Challoner (1909) I. 93 He gave up his pious spirit..in the ninety second year of his age and forty sixth of his episcopate and Apostolic Vicarage.
6. attrib. and Comb., as vicarage church, † vicarage duty, vicarage house, vicarage stipend, vicarage teind; vicarage tea-party, used as the type of something mild, innocuous, and uneventful.
1731Gentl. Mag. I. 118 From hence the Writer takes occasion to consider the State of *Vicarage Churches.
1597Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 303/2, 50 pundis money as for the personage dewtie and 10 merkis for the *vicarage dewtie foir⁓said.
a1550Leland Itin. (1769) IV. 118 From the which Water is conveyed to the Prebendaries Houses, to the *Vicarage Houses, and the Choristers. 1569Bp. Parkhurst Injunctions A iv, Whether..your Parsonage and Vicaredge house be well..maintained. 1638H. Spelman in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 156 There is a reasonable Vicarage house upon it. a1704T. Brown Two Oxford Scholars Wks. 1730 I. 10 An old rotten Parsonage or Vicarage-house. 1785J. Wesley Serm. lvii. Wks. 1811 IX. 25 He removed into the Vicarage-House. 1837Lockhart Scott II. xii. 378 An ornamental cottage in the style of the old English vicarage-house.
1867J. Campbell Balmerino & Abbey iii. ii. 170 He was also minister of Logie..and drew its *vicarage stipend.
1973Times 11 Apr. 1/2 Mr Heath's appearances in the Commons are never *vicarage tea parties. 1984Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 12/5 He surveyed the smoking ruins of..a fine old Elizabethan rectory,..and said: ‘It makes the Dissolution of the Monasteries look like a vicarage tea⁓party.’ 1984Guardian 6 June 10 Politicians..who fear that events are about to take a nasty turn, frequently say that what they are predicting will make D-Day (or the ravages of Genghis Khan..—every speaker will have his own comparison) look like a vicarage tea party.
1610in T. Pont's Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitl. Cl.) 185 To Mr. Williame Birsbane, of *vicarege teynd the said yeir, aucht pund. 1640–1Kircudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 163 The halfe of the said gleib and vicarege teindes. |