VICAR
A vicar (Latin:
vicarius) is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the
person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the
sense of "at second hand"). In this sense, the title is comparable to
lieutenant. Linguistically, vicar is the root of the English prefix
"vice", similarly meaning "deputy".
The title appears
in a number of Christian ecclesiastical contexts, but also as an administrative
title, or title modifier, in the Roman Empire. In addition, in the Holy Roman
Empire a local representative of the emperor, perhaps an archduke, might be
styled "vicar".
Notable vicars
In either
tradition, a vicar can be the priest of a "chapel of ease", a
building within the parish which is not the parish church. Non-resident canons
led also to the institution of vicars choral, each canon having his own vicar,
who sat in his stall in his absence.
Oliver Goldsmith's
novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and Honoré de Balzac's The Curate of Tours
(Le Curé de Tours) (1832) evoke the impoverished world of the 18th- and
19th-century vicar. Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire are peopled
with churchmen of varying situations, from wealthy to impoverished; the income
differences prompted a digression in Framley Parsonage (chapter 14) on the incomprehensible
logic that made one vicar rich and another poor. The 18th-century satirical
ballad "The Vicar of Bray" reveals the changes of conscience a vicar
(whether of the Bray in Berkshire or of that in County Wicklow) might undergo
in order to retain his meagre post, between the 1680s and 1720s. "The
Curate of Ars" (usually in French: Le Curé d'Ars) is a style often used to
refer to Saint Jean Vianney, a French parish priest canonized on account of his
piety and simplicity of life.
The Vicar of
Dibley
The Vicar of
Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead
actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from
Kit Hesketh-Harvey. It aired from 1994 to 2007. The Vicar of Dibley is set in a
fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female
vicar following the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the
ordination of women. The main character was an invention of Richard Curtis, but
he and Dawn French extensively consulted the Revd Joy Carroll, one of the first
female priests, and garnered many character traits and much information.
Collection
of the Jokes from the end of the Vicar of Dibley
TART
The word have
several meanings in English (UK).
One is a very
informal disapproving a woman who intentionally wears the type of clothes and
make-up that attract sexual attention in a way that is too obvious
Etymology: From sweetheart or jam tart (“attractive
woman”) by shortening
By extension, any
woman with loose sexual morals.
Old-fashioned
slang (UK) a female prostitute
People who sell
sex or are promiscuous
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