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Look up: vicarious

  1. vicarious
    [adj] - experienced at secondhand 2. [adj] - (medicine) occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function 3. [adj] - suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. vicarious
    acting as a substitute Category: Medicine
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Vicarious
    Vi·ca'ri·ous adjective [ Latin vicarius , from vicis change, alternation, turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin to Greek ... to yield, give way, German wechsel a change, and probably also to English weak . See Weak , and confer Vice , preposition ] 1. Of or pertaining to a vicar, sub ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  4. vicarious
    1. Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority. ... 2. Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer. 'The soul in the body is but a subordinate efficient, and vicarious . . . In the hands of the Almighty.' (Sir M. Hale) ... 3. Performed of suffered in the place of anoth ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. vicarious
    adjective suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; `vicarious atonement`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. vicarious
    adjective experienced at secondhand; `read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. vicarious
    adjective occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; `vicarious menstruation`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Vicarious
    `Vicarious` may refer to: * Vicarious (Tool song), a single by the rock band Tool * `Vicarious`, a song by Cadence Weapon from the album Breaking Kayfabe
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious

  9. Vicarious
    • (prep.) Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer. • (prep.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority. • (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment. • (prep.) Acting a...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. vicarious
    vicarious, vicariously, vicariousness 1. Endured or done by one person substituting for another. 2. Acting in place of someone or something else. 3. Felt or experienced as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another. 4. In physiology, taking place in or done by a part of the body not usually associated with a particular function.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  11. vicarious
    Acting as a substitute; occurring in an abnormal situation. [L. vicarius, from vicis, supplying place of]
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At 7.01pm on 9 February 1996, the IRA ended its 17-month ceasefire with a blast that rocked east London, injured more than 100 people, one critically, and thrust Northern Ireland back into political ferment. After one hour of shock and hectic checking with the security forces who, like the Government, were taken 'completely by surprise', Prime Minister John Major attacked the bombing as 'an appalling outrage'. He called upon Sinn Fein and the IRA to condemn unequivocally those who planted the bomb near South Quay railway station on the Isle of Dogs. read more

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