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Stipendiary

adjective

Pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance.

Receiving or eligible for compensation. Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried. "A stipendiary magistrate"

For which money is paid. Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried. "Remunerative work" , "Salaried employment" , "Stipendiary services"

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"Stipendiary" Quotes from Famous Books

... great age and infirmities, Galileo's career was near its close; that he possessed many valuable ideas, which the world might lose if they were not matured and conveyed to his friends; and that Galileo was anxious to make these communications to Father Castelli, who was then a stipendiary of the Court of Rome. The Grand Duke commanded his ambassador to see Castelli on the subject—to urge him to obtain leave from the Pope to spend a few months in Florence—and to supply him with money and every thing that was necessary for his journey. Influenced ...

— The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler • David Brewster

... very carpet-bag was an object of veneration to the stipendiary clerks, to whom the house at Norwood was a sacred mystery. One of them informed me that he had heard that Mr. Spenlow ate entirely off plate and china; and another hinted at champagne being constantly on draught, after the usual custom of table-beer. The old clerk with the ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... should be confirmed. Consequently corporeal things, whatever be their nature, admit of delivery, and delivery by their owner makes them the property of the alienee; this, for instance, is the mode of alienating stipendiary and tributary estates, that is to say, estates lying in provincial soil; between which, however, and estates in Italy there now exists, according to our constitution, ...

— The Institutes of Justinian • Caesar Flavius Justinian

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