Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
stipend . - adjective of a job or employment Paid (sometimes at a low level, but not voluntary).
- adjective of a person In receipt of a regular
payment ;salaried
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Examples
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A non-stipendary priest at St. George's Cathedral, he is a keen archaeologist who assists on the Ashkelon dig and holds inter-faith seminars in his small flat in West Jerusalem.
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Anti - slavery speakers like Clay and Burlingame were studiously kept out of Southern Indiana, where the teachings of Republicanism were especially needed, and Richard W. Thompson, then the professed champion of Fillmore, but in reality the stipendary of the Democrats, traversed that region on the stump, denounced the Republicans as
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian
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Webster in accepting the office of Secretary of State as the stipendary of Eastern capitalists.
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian
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For instruction in the elements of learning we have the inner and outer monastery and convent schools, and, in connection with the churches, song schools, and chantry or stipendary schools.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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Still another type of elementary school, which did not arise until near the latter part of the period under consideration in this chapter, but which will be enumerated here as descriptive of a type which later became very common, came through wills, and the schools came to be known as _chantry schools_, or _stipendary schools_.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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So again (p. 298): -- "In fact, it was their high wages which enabled them to maintain a stipendary committee in affluence, and to pamper themselves into nervous ailments by a diet too rich and exciting for their indoor occupation."
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899
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And if I were willing for the organ box, we are a poor kirk, and could not afford to rob our stipendary and mission funds to pay a man player on instruments; and as for women interfering with the ordinances in any way, you all know what St. Paul says on that subject. '
A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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The Minister of each circuit or station shall provide a stipendary fund, to compensate the President of his District for his services; and to instruct his people to collect monies for such fund.
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"When the stipendary magistrate makes his visit there all the glasses and decanters are removed and no whisky-selling apparently goes on."
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