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
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 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
As the market clock sounded out eleven strokes, a door at the side of the dais opened, and the stipendiary magistrate, the presiding genius of the place, appeared.
From Terry's Trials and Triumphs by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley
And when Stephen Colonna was settling himself on his palfrey, he heard, for the first time, that the Knight of Provence, Rodolf the trooper, and eighty of the stipendiaries, had already departed,—whither, none knew.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Each of the stipendiaries has discharged his obligation, and the Pope and Monsignori find that the Council has cost large sums, but think the money is well spent and will bring in abundant interest.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
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
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
I estimate the present expenditure at, civil and fiscal establishments, and stipendiaries, 38 lacs.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
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