Noun

(en noun)

In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=20 citation , passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}

*, chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1997, author=(Frank Muir), chapter=1, isbn=0552141372

, title= A Kentish Lad , passage=For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.}}

In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.

A person acting on behalf of, or is representing another person.

Noun

(en noun)

(Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).

(Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.

(Protestantism) Free Churches : A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.

(Protestantism) Anglicanism : An ordained clergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.

(Protestantism) Methodism : A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.

(freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.

(Mormonism) The lowest office in the (Aaronic priesthood), generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.

(US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually ed (see below).

(Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.