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Quotation dates: 1629
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Vicedeus, n. [Vice- prefix and L. Deus.] A representative of God. —1629 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III 146.
Powerfull papists, who … ar … vehementlie suspected to have dispensatioun frome the pope, thair vicedeus on earth