Vicarious



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj.间接的, 代理的
• ［英］ adj.间接的, 代理的 ( serving in place of someone or something else)
• ［记］ 来自vicar ( 牧师) +ious, 牧师是上帝的代言人 -> 代理的
• ［例］ vicarious punishment ( 代受的惩罚)

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Etymology: Latin vicarius, from vicis change, alternation, stead — more at week
• Date: 1637
• 1.
  • a. serving instead of someone or something else
  • b. that has been delegated <vicarious authority>
• 2. performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another ; substitutionary <a vicarious 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 <vicarious menstruation manifested by bleeding from the nose>
• ? vicariously adverb
• ? vicariousness noun

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