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Vice sb.7. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Vice sb.7 Also 6 vise. [Absolute use of VICE- prefix.] One who acts in the place of another; a substitute or deputy.

1   In mod. use the second element is usually implied or expressed in the context, as in quot. 1852.

2 1597.  Harvey, Trimming T. Nashe, Wks. (Grosart), III. 17. The Barbers were serued and they cut them, and were as Ioues Vises to make them fit for warre.

3 1728.  Chambers, Cycl., Deputy, is … frequently used among us, for an Office, or Employ, not a Dignity; and stands indifferently for a Vice, or Lieutenant.

4 1811.  Ora & Juliet, II. 180. Lord Berlington offered himself as Henry’s Vice, to conduct the other end of the table.

5 1820.  Byron, Mar. Fal., V. iii. 66. The few … shall fawn Round a barbarian Vice of Kings’ Vicegerent.

6 1852.  Dickens, Bleak Ho., x. He solaces his imagination, too, by thinking of the many Chancellors and Vices, and Masters of the Rolls, who are deceased.

7 1889.  Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 140. It was indirectly a proof of the estimation in which the Vice [= Vice-Chancellor] was held.

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