vicarious : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: vicarious	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for vicarious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vicarious adj experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement" occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation" suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vicarious \Vica"rious\, a. [L. vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin to Gr. [?] to yield, give way, G. wechsel a change, and probably also to E. weak. See {Weak}, and cf. {Vice}, prep.] 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 another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment. The vicarious work of the Great Deliverer. --I. Taylor. 4. (Med.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.