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Webster 1913 Edition


Suburbicary

{

Sub-urˊbi-ca′ri-an

,

Sub-ur′bi-ca-ry

, }
Adj.
[LL.
suburbicarius
, equiv. to L.
suburbanus
: cf. F.
suburbicaire
. See
Suburban
.]
Being in the suburbs; – applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome.
The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his
suburbicarian
precincts.
Barrow.

Definition 2024


suburbicary

suburbicary

English

Adjective

suburbicary (not comparable)

  1. suburbicarian