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
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
Later in the course of the inquiry the trainer and the stipendiary stewards were talking in Hindi and I couldn't understand what they were saying.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013
The council may by petition obtain the appointment of a stipendiary magistrate for the borough.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
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
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
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
These bands of Northern stipendiaries assumed, therefore, a civil, as well as a military, importance; they were as indispensable to the safety of one state as they were destructive to the security of all.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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