adjective
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receiving or working for regular pay
a stipendiary magistrate
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paid for by a stipend
noun
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Etymology
Origin of stipendiary
1535–45; < Latin stīpendiārius, equivalent to stīpendi ( um ) stipend + -ārius -ary
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In times of crisis, 18 volunteer magistrates and a stipendiary full-time magistrate took charge of law and order, and it was this body of anxious men who would precipitate the crisis of the day.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2018
James Norris, the stipendiary magistrate, was known as a man of urbanity and gentlemanly manners, but his colleague the Rev William Hay was fiercer.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2018
It's unlikely Jesus would have known Latin beyond a few words, says Jonathan Katz, stipendiary lecturer in Classics at Oxford University.
From BBC ● May 27, 2014
The stipendiary steward noted an explanation from Noel Quinlan that the horse's back problem had been treated since his previous start three months before.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2011
When captured by the Romans they made it a stipendiary town.
From Cathedral Cities of England by George Gilbert
There be seven Prebends and a Sexton under them; seven stipendiaries; the allowance for four of them is ten nobles apiece; for the other three £6 apiece.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
Would it not be possible to appoint a certain proportion of stipendiaries, with ample salaries, to that body?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890 by Various
Mrs. Datchett, the wife of one of our stipendiaries, is the only lady here, and I hope to have the pleasure of making you acquainted with her this evening at the Commandant's.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
As soon as peace is restored, we will send out of the kingdom all foreign knights, cross-bowmen, and stipendiaries, who are come with horses and arms to the molestation of our people.
From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by John Fiske
It has been generally so since the days of Jeroboam who "made priests of the lowest of the people," and thereby rendered the ministry the stipendiaries of the state.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele
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