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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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
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
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 moment I knew I was in trouble was when the stipendiary steward asked the trainer, 'Is it possible for a jockey to make a horse bleed during the course of the race?'
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013
In the remote country places more than anywhere is the stipendiary a necessity.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
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
“No use taking the ‘great unpaid’ into my confidence, nor yet the sharper stipendiaries.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
I confess I have stipendiaries; they are the poor of Christ's flock; a treasure which I am well used in amassing.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
No use taking the 'great unpaid' into my confidence, nor yet the sharper stipendiaries.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
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
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