"vicarious" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/ [General-American] (note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger), /vəˈkɛəɹi.əs/ [General-American] (note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger), /vaɪˈkɛɹi.əs/ (note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger), /vəˈkɛɹi.əs/ (note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) Audio: en-us-vicarious.ogg , en-au-vicarious.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəs Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substituted”), 17th century. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|vicārius||vicarious, substituted}} Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substituted”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} vicarious (not comparable)
  1. Delegated. Tags: not-comparable Translations (delegated): делегиран (delegiran) (Bulgarian), par procuration (French), stellvertretend (German), anstelle von (German), übertragen (German), nachempfunden (German), делегированный (delegirovannyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-vicarious-en-adj-7CGZNZ2q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 43 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 59 35 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 58 39 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 62 36 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 63 30 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 51 43 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 63 30 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 63 30 7 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 64 29 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 52 42 6 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 63 29 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 51 43 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 66 29 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 61 32 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 52 42 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 66 29 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 52 42 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 68 28 4 Disambiguation of 'delegated': 86 13 2
  2. Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading. Tags: not-comparable Translations (experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another): zástupný (Czech), indirect (Dutch), overgedragen (Dutch), indirect (French), par procuration (French), másodkézből való (Hungarian), másodlagos (Hungarian), közvetett (Hungarian), замещающий (zameščajuščij) (Russian), sprostredkovaný (Slovak), vicario [masculine] (Spanish), vicarial (Spanish), vicariante (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-vicarious-en-adj-DHjkRM-p Categories (other): Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Slovak translations Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 51 43 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 52 42 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 51 43 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 52 42 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 52 42 6 Disambiguation of 'experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another': 18 80 2
  3. On behalf of others. Tags: not-comparable Translations (on behalf of others): заместващ (zamestvašt) (Bulgarian), plaatsvervangend (Dutch), toisen puolesta tehty (Finnish), par procuration (French), სხვის ნაცვლად შესრულებული (sxvis nacvlad šesrulebuli) (Georgian), stellvertretend (German), Ersatz- (German), más helyett végzett/elviselt/tapasztalt (Hungarian), 身代わりの (migawari-no) (Japanese), vicário (Portuguese), sprostredkovaný (Slovak), delegovaný (Slovak), zástupný (Slovak), vicario (Spanish), vicarial (Spanish), vicariante (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-vicarious-en-adj-Ja5BjJJc Disambiguation of 'on behalf of others': 2 1 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: vicarious atonement, vicarious embarrassment, vicarious learning, vicarious liability, vicarious punishment, vicarious reinforcement Related terms: vicar, vicariously
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          "text": "The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous. When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.",
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          "text": "The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.",
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          "ref": "1900, James Frazer, chapter 26, in The Golden Bough:",
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          "ref": "1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 10, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:",
          "text": "The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous. When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Experienced",
          "experience"
        ],
        [
          "gain",
          "gain"
        ],
        [
          "watch",
          "watch"
        ],
        [
          "read",
          "read"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, James Frazer, chapter 26, in The Golden Bough:",
          "text": "As time went on, the cruel custom was so far mitigated that a ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, H. Rider Haggard, chapter III, in The Blue Curtains:",
          "text": "In these, however, he had not much time to indulge, for a footman, still decked in the trappings of vicarious grief, opened the door with the most startling promptitude, and he was ushered upstairs into a small but richly furnished room.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "On behalf of others."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "On behalf of",
          "on behalf of"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vaɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/",
      "note": "without the Mary–marry–merry merger",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vəˈkɛəɹi.əs/",
      "note": "without the Mary–marry–merry merger",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vaɪˈkɛɹi.əs/",
      "note": "General American, Mary–marry–merry merger"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vəˈkɛɹi.əs/",
      "note": "General American, Mary–marry–merry merger"
    },
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛəɹiəs"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "delegiran",
      "sense": "delegated",
      "word": "делегиран"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "delegated",
      "word": "par procuration"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "delegated",
      "word": "stellvertretend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "delegated",
      "word": "anstelle von"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "delegated",
      "word": "übertragen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "delegated",
      "word": "nachempfunden"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "delegirovannyj",
      "sense": "delegated",
      "word": "делегированный"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "zástupný"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "indirect"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "overgedragen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "indirect"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "par procuration"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "másodkézből való"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "másodlagos"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "közvetett"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zameščajuščij",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "замещающий"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "sprostredkovaný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vicario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "vicarial"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another",
      "word": "vicariante"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zamestvašt",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "заместващ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "plaatsvervangend"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "toisen puolesta tehty"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "par procuration"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sxvis nacvlad šesrulebuli",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "სხვის ნაცვლად შესრულებული"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "stellvertretend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "Ersatz-"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "más helyett végzett/elviselt/tapasztalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "migawari-no",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "身代わりの"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "vicário"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "sprostredkovaný"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "delegovaný"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "zástupný"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "zástupný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "vicario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "vicarial"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "on behalf of others",
      "word": "vicariante"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vicarious"
}

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