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Vicar-general

Definition: Vicar-general

Vicar-general

Noun

1. (Roman Catholic) an administrative deputy who assists a bishop.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vicar-general" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)



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Crosswords: Vicar-general

Specialty definitions using "vicar-general": Keys. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Vicar-general

"Vicar-general" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vicar-general" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vicar-general

Language Translations for "vicar-general"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

教区牧师一般. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Vicar-general

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-g-i-l-n-r-r-v"

-3 letters: careering, caregiver, carrageen, clavering, evangelic, grievance, laveering, revealing, viceregal.

-4 letters: algerine, alienage, angelica, averring, carageen, carnival, carriage, cavalier, clearing, cleavage, cleaving, craaling, creeling, engraver, enlarger, galvanic, geranial, gnarlier, larcener, larrigan, levering, lingerer, nearlier, raveling, recliner, regainer, relacing, reliance, reveling, revering, valencia, valerian, valiance, variance, vernacle, vernicle, vicarage.

-5 letters: acarine, acreage, agravic, aliener, aligner, anergia, anergic, angelic, anglice, angrier, arraign, arrange, arrival, avarice, avenger, average, calving, caravel, carinae, carinal, carline, carling, carnage, carving, caviare, caviler, cervine, clanger, clavier, cleaner, clearer, cleaver, clinger, cranial, craving, cringer, cringle, earlier, earring, elegiac, enclave, engrail, engrave, enlarge, evangel, galenic, general, generic, glacier, glancer, glarier, gleaner, gracile, grainer, griever, learier, learner, leavier, leaving, leering, lineage, livener, nargile, nervier, railcar, rangier, ravager, raveler, ravelin, ravener, realgar, realign, rearing, reavail, reaving, reclean, recline, reeling, reeving, regaler, regalia, reginae, reginal, regiven, relearn, reviler, vaginae, vaginal, valance, valence, valeric, vealier, vealing, veering, velaria, veliger, vernier, vinegar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vicar-general


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 69 63 61 72 2D 67 65 6E 65 72 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110010 00101101 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#114 &#45 &#103 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0069 0063 0061 0072 002D 0067 0065 006E 0065 0072 0061 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56756967841573718071846778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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