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vice-ˈpresident
[vice-. So F. vice-président, It., Sp., and Pg. vicepresidente.]
One who acts as the representative or deputy of a president (in various senses); an official ranking immediately below a president.
1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 66 Under Sergius the Vice-president of Asia..ther arose a great strife..about the keeping of the Easter. 1586in J. Morris Troub. Cath. Forefathers (1877) 84 The Lord Evers sitting as vice-president with Meares, Hurlstone, Cheeke, and the rest. 1629Wadsworth Pilgr. vii. 64 This North was created D.D. in Paris, and was sometimes Vice-President of the Colledge of Doway. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 235 The President, or Vice-president of the Queens Councell established in the North. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. (1789) IV. 18 The college [Magdalen, Oxford] was filled with catholics; and Charnock..was made vice-president. 1796T. Twining Trav. India, etc. (1893) 54 The Vice-President always breakfasted in his own room. 1800St. Papers in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 6/2 That nothing..shall prevent such Governor, when absent, from nominating a Vice-President and Deputy-Governor of Fort William. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 57 Melzi d'Eril was vice-president: and in the Council of State were found Serbelloni [etc.]. 1855Poultry Chron. III. 411/1 The society consists of a president, vice-president, committee, secretary, and members. 1874Bancroft Footpr. Time ii. 234 The Vice-President becomes an officer of much power or dignity.
Hence vice-presiˈdential a.; vice-ˈpresidentship. Also vice-ˈpresidency.
1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2600/1 The Vice-Presidentship of the Council of Arragon. 1804Guardian of Freedom (Frankfort, Kentucky) 28 July 2/3 He is charged with having been long intriguing for the vice presidency. 1804G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 132, I would accept the Vice-Presidentship of the Board of Trade. 1833Story Comm. Constit. U.S. III. 336 Suppose there should be three candidates for the presidency, and two for the vice-presidency. 1854T. H. Benton 30 Years' View I. 45/1 Mr. Calhoun was the only substantive vice⁓presidential candidate before the people. 1884G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier xlvi. 341 With a presidential candidate on one side and his vice-presidential man Friday on the other. 1889W. Wilson State §1099 (1893) 562 Each party..nominates the candidates of its choice for the presidency and vice-presidency. 1904Daily Chron. 20 June 5/6 There has never before been so pronounced a reluctance to accept the vice-presidential nomination. |