stipendiary
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin stipendiarius.
Adjective[edit]
stipendiary (not comparable)
- Receiving a stipend.
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 4, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
- His father, Mr. Justice Harley, died in his promising son's College term, bequeathing him nothing but his legal complexion, and Adrian became stipendiary officer in his uncles household.
- 1875, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875.[1]:
- The unusual hour, appropriate as I supposed only to some porter or other stipendiary visitor of my hotel, caused to shine out with startling refulgence the morning splendors in which Papa Joliet had arrayed himself.
- 1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott[2]:
- Now, to become a stipendiary editor of a New-Year's Gift-Book is not to be thought of, nor could I agree to work for any quantity of supply to such a publication.
Noun[edit]
stipendiary (plural stipendiaries)
- One who receives a stipend.
- 1874, John Lord, A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon[3]:
- Delhi, the capital of the Great Mogul, fell into the hands of the English, and the emperor himself became a stipendiary of a company of merchants.
- 1908, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3)[4]:
- I confess I have stipendiaries; they are the poor of Christ's flock; a treasure which I am well used in amassing.
Translations[edit]
one who receives a stipend
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