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vicarious

Произношение:
vi.car.i.ous
Часть речи:
adj
Происхождение:
[L vicarius, fr. vicis change, alternation, stead--more at week]
Появление:
(1637)
Определение:
1 a: serving instead of someone or something else b: that has been delegated <~ authority> 2: performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another: substitutionary <a ~ sacrifice> 3: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another 4: occurring in an unexpected or abnormal part of the body instead of the usual one <bleeding from the gums sometimes occurs in the absence of the normal discharge from the uterus in ~ menstruation> -- vi.car.i.ous.ly adv -- vi.car.i.ous.ness n

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