Note that up to the 20C, holy orders (training to be a CofE vicar) was the about only official course at some Oxford and Cambridge colleges. So people like the mathematician/author Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) were officially vicars or training to be vicars. For a novelist, the vicar and vicar's daughter are pretty much stock 19C characters.

2015年4月14日 · Paul Beale has collected various forms for a revision of Partridge/Catch Phrases, including 'good evening, vicar!'; 'no swearing please, vicar' (said facetiously to introduce a note of the mock highbrow into a conversation full of expletives); 'another cucumber sandwich, vicar' (after an involuntary belch); 'speak up, Padre!/Brown/Ginger (you ...

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2014年11月22日 · [Examples:] Miss Dunn, the head teacher; Anne Williams, our mnaging director; Mr. Gladstone, the prime minister; Dr Primrose, the parish vicar. Titles used before a name are normally capitalized, and are not followed by a comma:

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2017年1月2日 · I've come across the phrase "History teaches, never trust a Cecil!" in different places (among others, in the Netflix series "The Crown" with regards to Lord Salisbury).

2015年1月29日 · The vicar called in sick, and the records show that, but a person who doesn't know the definition could easily misconstrue that he was "unavailable". In Doors to Madame Marie , likewise: You knew when a girl had her period because, as the French put it, she was " …

When vice, deputy, associate, or assistant is collocated with a job title, such as vice manager, deputy manager, associate manager, assistant manager, I wonder how to rank or differentiate their le...

The word "celebrant" is perhaps more commonly used to refer to someone presiding over a religious ceremony (priest, vicar etc). – psmears Commented Jan 9, 2011 at 17:25

First, Thomas Dibdin's dramatization of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, which he titled The Vicar of Wakefield: A Melodramatic Burletta, in Three Acts (1817) includes the same song that The Universal Songster (cited in Hugo's answer) does, with canoodle in place, although the title in the 1817 occurrence is given only as "Song," not "Paddy ...