stipendiary

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

STIPENDIARY, adjective [Latin] Receiving wages or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil appointed horsemen not half full. STIPENDIARY, noun [supra.] One who performs services for a settled compensation, either by the day, month or year. If thou art become a tyrants vile stipendiary--
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