† stipendaryadj.n.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
= stipendiary adj.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [adjective] > in receipt of pay > paid by salary
stipendary1540
stipendiaryc1545
salaried1600
stipended1613
salariateda1687
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 23 §3 All and singulier stipendary preestis.
1552–3 Inv. Ch. Goods Staffords. 84 Rychard Forsett..solde the ornaments of a stypendare prest ther..for the sume of ijs.
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. i. f. 23 The souldiers stipendary.
1591–2 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 298 Curates stipendary nobles dew for two yeares..13s. 4d.
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. i. 2 According to the proportion of their stipendary time, as the Equites were admitted Tribunes at fiue yeares, so were the legionarie footmen at ten.
1604 Bancroft in Neal's Hist. Puritans (1754) I. 435 These are either stipendary curates, or stipendary lecturers, or men beneficed.
1611 R. Fenton Treat. Vsurie 92 Stipendarie maintenance was first the inuention of that Idolater Micha.
1619 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Αρχαιο-πλουτος 336/2 We haue distributed the people gouernd in common by the Cantons of Switzerland, into fiue stipendary Townes, [etc.].
B. n.
= stipendiary n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee > who receives salary
stipendary1530
stipendiaryc1584
stipendiarist1830
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 15 §1 All persones Vicars Curates Chauntrie Prestes Stypendaries.
1549 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 223 All the stipendaryes above wrytton have hadd..ij.s. wekelye ffor theyr dyett.
1561 Abp. Parker in E.Cardwell Documentary Ann. Church Eng. (1839) I. 272 Stipendaries, and curates, and all such beneficed men.
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 116 When as..Apryes on the one side with his stipendaries, and on the other side Amasis with an huge army of the Ægyptians were come into the City Memphis, they closed battaile.
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. D3 As if she knew you more then for a youth, A younger brother, and a stipendary.
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts i. i. sig. B4 Money from thee? From a boy? a stipendary? one that liues At the deuotion of a stepmother.
1657 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 89 By Curates here are not meant Stipendaries... But all..to whom the Bishop..hath committed the cure of souls.
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated ii. 49 Like a Mercenary stipendary to Lewis the 13...he makes neither King nor People judge of succession.
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