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Pensionary   Listen
noun
Pensionary  n.  (pl. pensionaries)  
1.
One who receives a pension; a pensioner.
2.
One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.
Grand pensionary, the title of the prime minister, or or president of the Council, of Holland when a republic.





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"Pensionary" Quotes from Famous Books



... They had taken possession of three churches, and in each, one of their principal preachers was to deliver an address, and offer up prayer and praise. The magistrates were greatly alarmed, believing that such a proceeding would draw down on the city the vengeance of the Regent. In their alarm, the Pensionary, Vesembeck, was sent to entreat the ministers to postpone their exercises. One of them, Taffen, a famous Walloon preacher, agreed to do so; but the others were not so easily persuaded to abandon what they believed to be the right course. Herman Modet ...
— The Golden Grasshopper - A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham • W.H.G. Kingston


Words linked to "Pensionary" :   donee, pension, hireling, beneficiary


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