stipendiaries
- plural of stipendiary.
Example Sentences
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No use taking the 'great unpaid' into my confidence, nor yet the sharper stipendiaries.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
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 Hackwood, Frederick William
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 Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
The Clergy were, as we have seen, appointed universally under the direction of Government: they were also its direct stipendiaries; hence nothing could be more complete than their subjection to its pleasure.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
Even then Norfolk and Hereford refused to sail; but the greater part of the minor magnates consented to serve as stipendiaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
