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VICE-LBGATESHIP.
Hence Vlce-le'gTAteship.
1691 Lond. Gaz. No. 2685/1 The Vice-LegatshJp of
Avignon is given to the Bishop of Fieschi. 1818 Gentl.
Mag. Aug. 127/1 In the exercise of the several governments,
..he has.. acquired great praise, as likewise in the Vicelegateship
of Botonia.
Viceless (val-sles), a. [f. Vice sb?^ i.] Free
from vice.
1560 Holland Seven Sages 5 To that effect, that he may
viceless be, Of all yices, and sic thing as gais wrang. 1591
Savile Tacitus, Hist. i. xlix. 27 Galba.. rather vicelesse
than greatly vertuous.^ 1665 Bovle Occas. Reji.v, i:.(i675)
301 Errours about Religion,, .maintain'd by ^fen that are
resolute, and viceless. 1671-4 Lady Warwick Auiobiog.
(Percy Soc.) 164 Mr. Henry St, John was very good natured
and viceless. /bid.. The young men were not viceless. 1847
J. Halliday Rustic Bard 321 Viceless virtue, undecaying.
Shed her lustre on our name. 1890 Sat. Rev. 22 Nov. 575/1
Those who are themselves sinless and viceless.
Vice-lilce, a.^ rare-^. [f. Vice sb.^ i.] Partaking
of the nature of vice.
1590 Nashe Martin Marprelaie Wks. (Grosart) I, 184
Beeing once entered into the vicelike vaine of foolerie, . . I
was caried most wickedlie. .in a scorne against the Saincts
of God.
Vice-like, «.- Also 6^.9. vise-like. [f. Vice
sb^ 5.] Resembling (that of) a vice ; firmly
tenacious or compressive.
1845 Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 127 Traitors! that vice-like
fang the hand ye lick. 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit,
%yks. (Botiii) II. 104 What he relishes in Dante is the vicelike
tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the
eyes. 1890 D. Davidson Mem, Long Life x. 258 [He] seized
uiy hand in his vice-like fist.
Vieelinge, ME. var./y6^//«^FiCKLiNG vbL sb.
Vicena-rioufl, rt. rare-^. [See next and -ions.]
* Of or belonging to the twentieth ' (Blount, 1656).
Vicenary (vi*senari), sb. and a. [ad. L, vlcindri-uSy
f. viceni, distrib. f. vigintl twenty.]
+ a. sb. One who has command over twenty
persons. Obs.
1603 Habsnet Pop, Impost. 49 Dclicat, another Capuine,
or vicenarie in Sara, hauing vnder him twenty assistants.
b. adj, * Belonging to twenty * (Bailey, 1727)
based on the number twenty. Cf. Vigenaby a.
i8a6 Peacock in Encycl. Metrop, (1845) 1- 37^/' Such a
practice would naturally lead to the formation of a vicenary
scale of numeration. 1834 Penny C}^cl. II. 337/2 In France
the scale from 60 to 100 is strictly vicenary (by twenties).
Vice*nnal». rarr~^. [ad, L. vuenndlia^
1656 Blount Glossogr.^ Vicennals, solemn games and vows
for twenty ..years.
Vice'lUlial, o- Sc. Law. [f. L. vicenni-um : see
next. Cf. L, vUenndlis, F. vkennal^ Extending
to twenty years,
«737 Kames Decis. Cri. Sets. /7JO-J2 (1799) 19 What use
would there be for the vicennial prescription of retours, if a
Eurchasefctc.]. 1785ARNOT Tria/s [1812) 261 Lord Fountainall
laid down this doctrine, that the vicennial prescription
of Crimes had no place with us. x8a6 G. J. Bfxl Comment.
Laws Scot. (cd. 5) I, Vicennial Prescription of Holograph
Obligations, iiijfi W. Bell Diet. Law Scot. 770 By the
act 1617, c. 13, a vicennial prescription of retours was
introduced.
H Vice nnium. rarr"^, [L., f, vie-, stem of
vtcies twenty times, etc., + annus year.] A period
of twenty years.
1846 McCuLLocH Ace. Brit. Empire (185^) 11,623 The
danger of dyin^ of consumption, .is greater in this than in
the preceding vicennium.
Vice-pre'sident. [Vice-. So F. vue-prisidenty
It., Sp., and Pg. vicepresidente.'l One who
acts as the representative or deputy of a president
(in various senses); an official ranking immediately
below a president.
1574 tr. Afariorat's Apoccdips 66 Under Sergius the Vicepresident
of Asia . . tber arose a great strife . . aU}ut the keeping
of the Kaster. 1^6 in J. Morris Troub. Cath. Forefathers
(1877) 84 The Lord tvcrs silting as vice-president
with Meare«, HurUtone, Cheeke, and the re>t. 1629
Wai>sworth Pilgr. vii. 64 This North was created D.D. in
Paris, and was sometimes Vice-Pre.sident of the Colledgeof
Doway. 1660 R. Coke Power ^ Subj. 235 The President,
or Vice-president of the Queens Councell established in the
North. 1771 GoLDSM. Hist, Eng. {1789) IV. i8 The college
[Magdalen, Oxford] was filled with catholics; and Charnock.,
was made vice-president. 1796 T, Twining Trav.
India, etc. (1893) 54 The Vice-President always breakfasted
in hb own room. 1800 St. Papers in Asiat, Ann. Reg, 6/a
That nothing, .shall prevent such Governor, when absent,
from nominating a Vice-President and Deputy-Governor of
Fort William. 1841 W. Spalding Italy ^ It. Isl. III. 57
Melzi d'Eril was vice-president : and in the Council of State
were found Serbclloni letcj. 1855 Poultry Chron. III.
411/1 The society consists of a president, vice-president,
committee, secretary, and members. 1874 Bancroft Footpr,
Time ii. 234 The Vice-President becomes an officer of much
power or dignity.
Hence ioe-preside-ntialfZ. ; Vice-pre'side&t*
Mp. Also Tice-pre'sidenoy.
1690 Lond. Gaz. No. 2600/1 The Vice- Presidentship of the
Council of Arragon. 1&04 G. Rose Diaries (i860) II. 132,
I would accept the Vice-Presidentship of the Board of
Trade. 1833 Storv Comm. Constit. U.S. III. 336 Suppose
there shouIcT be three candidates for the presidency, and
two for the vice- presidency. 1889 W. Wilson State § 10^9
(1893) 562 Each party ..nominates the candidates of its
choice for the presidency and vice-presidency. 1904 Daily
ChroH. 20 June 5/6 There has never before been so pronounced
a reluctance to accept the vice-presidential
Domination.
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Vice-q,ueen. [Vice-.] a. A woman mling
as the representative of a queen, b. The wife of
a viceroy. (Cf, Vicereine.)
1578 T. N, tr. Conq. IK India (1596) 7 His mother and
three sisters. .came to the Hand of Santo Domingo, with
that vicequeene the Lady Mary of Toledo. 1628-9 Digbv
yoy, Medit. (Camden) 77, I ..sent some letters to the Vicequeene
of Sardinia. 1667 Lond. Gaz. No. 221/3 Naples,
Dec. 13... The next day the Vice-Roy went incognito to
visit him, which was the day after returned him by the
Cardinal : who paid also his complements to the Vice
Queen. 1749 Smollett Gil Bias ni. ix, Heavens ! what
luxury and magnificence ! I believed myself in the palace
of a vice-queen. 1796 Nelson 28 Sept. in Nicolas Disp.
(1845) II. 284 If the Enemy land near Bastia, the Vice-
Queen's Vatch may be useful. 1842 Miss Mitford in
L'Estrange Z-i/^r (1870) Ill.ix. 139 Think of., the vice-queen
of Portugal labouring as a bookseller's drudge. 1894
Dublin Re7'. Oct. 463 A great Roman lady, who played the
part of a vice-queen m Judea.
Vice-re'Ctor. [Vice-. Cf. F. vice-recleufy
It. vicerettore, Sp. vicerector^ Pg. -reitor.'\ A
deputy rector (of a theological college).
1629 Wadswobth Pilgr. iii, 12 Entire obseruance and
duly to bee performed to the Rector.., next to the Vice-
Rector as his minister. 1834 in Ushaiv Mag. Dec (1913)
259 Your late worthy Vice Rector has been at Ushaw some
days. 1890 I. Morris in Month. Apr. 491 With Dr. Ferdi-
nand English, then Vice-Rector of the English College at
Rome, . . I left England.
Hence Vice-re *ctorship.
1856 J. Morris in J. H. Pollen Life (1896) vii. 165 When
the Vice-Rectorship of the English College was offered me,
I did not hesitate to accept it.
Viceregal, a. [Vice- + Regal a., after Viceroy
sb.'\ Of or pertaining to, associated with, a
viceroy.
1839 Levkr H. Z-tfrri-^/z^Kix, One of my fellow-passengers
was a gentleman holding a high official appointment in the
viceregal court. 1859 Lang li^and. India 325 He found a
carriage ready to convey him to the vice-regal dwelling.
1874 ^TUBBS Const. Hist. I. xiii. 563 The viceregal character,
which the justiciar certainly possessed.
Hence Vloe-re'^alize v. trans, y to convert into
a viceroyalty ; Vice-re'Gfally cdv,, as a viceroy.
1847 Mrs. Gore Castles in Air xxviii, In many things,
our poor vice-regalized kingdom only too strongly resembles
Ireland. x88x Acadetny April 271 The people whom he had
ruled vice-regally.
Vice-re 'gent. [Vice-. Cf. It. vicereggenu,'\
One who acts in place of a regent.
In some early instances perh. an error for vice-gerent,
1556 Ace. Ld. High Treas. Scot. X. 315 To aiie boy rynnand..to
Dunkell witht clois writtingis of the viceregentis.
1581 Marbeck Bk. Notes 842 Who doubieth then, but if the
Pope bee Vicar to the Prince of this world, he is Viceregent
to the Diuell. i6