(prep.) Of or pertaining to a vicar, substitute, or deputy; deputed; delegated; as, vicarious power or authority.
(prep.) Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer.
(prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment.
(prep.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.
Example Sentences:
(1) A second objective was to compare responses to two different passive film tasks, which differed in outcome uncertainty and the degree of vicarious active coping achieved through identification with the role portrayed by the actors.
(2) Recommendations are made in the areas of confidentiality, informed consent, standards of care and vicarious liability.
(3) Physiological substances (Mg, taurine) increase ionic transfer and there is a vicarious effect between Mg and taurine.
(4) But sometimes I know he's living it vicariously through me."
(5) Various EMG measures were obtained in order to determine the occurrence of vicarious instigation and conditioning.
(6) Recent evidence has underscored the importance of parental models and vicarious learning in the etiology of pain behavior.
(7) Fear-relevant (snakes, spiders, and rats) and fear-irrelevant (flowers, mushrooms, and berries) pictures were compared as conditioned and instigating stimuli in a vicarious classical conditioning paradigm with skin conductance responses as the dependent variable.
(8) Although two cases studied proved the notable acceleration of vicarious excretion in dialysis patients, this acceleration appeared only with high total blood iodine content.
(9) Adult phobics were administered treatments based upon either performance mastery experiences, vicarious experiences., or they received no treatment.
(10) chief executive, Peter Vicary-Smith, said: "A huge opportunity has been missed to inject some much needed competition into retail banking.
(11) Negative emotional states were induced in second-grade children by one of four processes, all of which involved social rejection content: cognition that focused on (a) the self (thinking about oneself being rejected by a peer) or (b) another person (thinking about a peer being rejected); or experience that related to (c) oneself (actually being socially rejected) or (d) observing another (vicarious: seeing a peer be socially rejected).
(12) Sequential single replacement of nucleosides within the decanucleotide d[GGGAATTCCC] (7) by means of a butanediol-1,3 residue allowed us to obtain a set of ten decanucleotides containing 'vicarious' (V) carbon-phosphate fragments.
(13) The mechanisms and pathophysiology of vicarious contrast excretion are discussed.
(14) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
(15) This dysphonia can occur as a compensation for anatomic or physiologic alterations within the larynx (vicarious type) or as isolated ventricular fold hypertrophy unaccompanied by other obvious laryngeal disorders (usurpative type).
(16) Most of us, however, are arm-chair adventurers: we enjoy the thrills vicariously, and these days they often come with the help of modern science and technology, through television and home video games.
(17) Whether it is vicarious liability or otherwise, they are liable.
(18) Similarly, senior staff at the Havens [centres for victims] suggested that the lack of occupational health support available to SOIT [sexual offences investigative techniques] officers leaves them susceptible to ‘vicarious trauma’.
(19) This concordance of mtDNA phylogenetic pattern across independently evolving species provides strong evidence for vicariant biogeographic processes in initiating intraspecific population structure.
(20) Musk is one of the high-profile investors, alongside Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the actor Ashton Kutcher, in Vicarious, a company aiming to build a computer that can think like a person, with a neural network capable of replicating the part of the brain that controls vision, body movement and language.
Vicariously
Definition:
(adv.) In a vicarious manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) A second objective was to compare responses to two different passive film tasks, which differed in outcome uncertainty and the degree of vicarious active coping achieved through identification with the role portrayed by the actors.
(2) Recommendations are made in the areas of confidentiality, informed consent, standards of care and vicarious liability.
(3) Physiological substances (Mg, taurine) increase ionic transfer and there is a vicarious effect between Mg and taurine.
(4) But sometimes I know he's living it vicariously through me."
(5) Various EMG measures were obtained in order to determine the occurrence of vicarious instigation and conditioning.
(6) Recent evidence has underscored the importance of parental models and vicarious learning in the etiology of pain behavior.
(7) Fear-relevant (snakes, spiders, and rats) and fear-irrelevant (flowers, mushrooms, and berries) pictures were compared as conditioned and instigating stimuli in a vicarious classical conditioning paradigm with skin conductance responses as the dependent variable.
(8) Although two cases studied proved the notable acceleration of vicarious excretion in dialysis patients, this acceleration appeared only with high total blood iodine content.
(9) Adult phobics were administered treatments based upon either performance mastery experiences, vicarious experiences., or they received no treatment.
(10) chief executive, Peter Vicary-Smith, said: "A huge opportunity has been missed to inject some much needed competition into retail banking.
(11) Negative emotional states were induced in second-grade children by one of four processes, all of which involved social rejection content: cognition that focused on (a) the self (thinking about oneself being rejected by a peer) or (b) another person (thinking about a peer being rejected); or experience that related to (c) oneself (actually being socially rejected) or (d) observing another (vicarious: seeing a peer be socially rejected).
(12) Sequential single replacement of nucleosides within the decanucleotide d[GGGAATTCCC] (7) by means of a butanediol-1,3 residue allowed us to obtain a set of ten decanucleotides containing 'vicarious' (V) carbon-phosphate fragments.
(13) The mechanisms and pathophysiology of vicarious contrast excretion are discussed.
(14) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
(15) This dysphonia can occur as a compensation for anatomic or physiologic alterations within the larynx (vicarious type) or as isolated ventricular fold hypertrophy unaccompanied by other obvious laryngeal disorders (usurpative type).
(16) Most of us, however, are arm-chair adventurers: we enjoy the thrills vicariously, and these days they often come with the help of modern science and technology, through television and home video games.
(17) Whether it is vicarious liability or otherwise, they are liable.
(18) Similarly, senior staff at the Havens [centres for victims] suggested that the lack of occupational health support available to SOIT [sexual offences investigative techniques] officers leaves them susceptible to ‘vicarious trauma’.
(19) This concordance of mtDNA phylogenetic pattern across independently evolving species provides strong evidence for vicariant biogeographic processes in initiating intraspecific population structure.
(20) Musk is one of the high-profile investors, alongside Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the actor Ashton Kutcher, in Vicarious, a company aiming to build a computer that can think like a person, with a neural network capable of replicating the part of the brain that controls vision, body movement and language.