RRCa priest in the Church of England who is in charge of a church in a particular area 〔英国国教的〕教区牧师
Examples from the Corpus
vicar• Most of the congregation at Drayton would certainly welcome their Minister-in-Charge becoming a vicar.• My informant is the Anglicanvicar.• Twenty years ago a poorvicar fell in love with a rich man's daughter.• Too flourishing, indeed, for the vicar, who objected to the time his bell-ringers sat drinking ale.• But just a few minutes the vicararrived, and despite the Church's apologyinsisted the crosses would have to go.• Weston is now the vicar of a parish two miles away, with three hundred pounds a year.
Originvicar
(1300-1400)Latinvicarius“deputy”, from vicarius (adjective); → VICARIOUS