• n. 教區牧師，教堂牧師；傳教牧師；代理人
• n. (Vicar)人名；(英)維卡

來自拉丁語vicis,改變，交流，繼任，副職，詞源同vice-president,viceroy。引申詞義代牧，教區牧師。

vicar

vicar: [13] A vicar is etymologically a ‘substitute’ for or ‘representative’ of someone else: thus the pope is the vicar of God on Earth, and the vicar of a parish was originally someone who stood in for the parson or rector. The word comes via Old French vicaire from Latin vicārius ‘substitute, deputy’. This was a noun use of the adjective vicārius ‘substituting’ (source of English vicarious [17], which more closely preserves the meaning of its Latin original). And vicārius in turn was derived from vicis ‘change, turn, office’, source also of English vicissitude [16] and the prefix vice-.
=> vicarious, vicissitude

vicar (n.)

early 14c., from Anglo-French vicare, Old French vicaire "deputy, second in command," also in the ecclesiastical sense (12c.), from Latin vicarius "a substitute, deputy, proxy," noun use of adjective vicarius "substituted, delegated," from vicis "change, interchange, succession; a place, position" (see vicarious). The original notion is of "earthly representative of God or Christ;" but also used in sense of "person acting as parish priest in place of a real parson" (early 14c.).

The original Vicar of Bray (in figurative use from 1660s) seems to have been Simon Allen, who held the benefice from c. 1540 to 1588, thus serving from the time of Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, being twice a Catholic and twice a Protestant but always vicar of Bray. The village is near Maidenhead in Berkshire.

1. The housekeeper moved smartly to the Vicar's desk to answer the call.

管家迅速來到牧師的書桌前接電話。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The Vicar looked at him with open-mouthed incredulity.

教區牧師目瞪口呆地看著他，露出不相信的表情。

來自柯林斯例句

3. She always puts on a posh voice to talk to the vicar.

她總是裝腔作勢,用一種優雅的嗓音跟教區牧師講話.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another.

我們的牧師老是在為這樁或那樁事募款.

來自《用法詞典》

5. We were married by our local vicar.

我們是由本地教區牧師主持婚禮的.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》