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stipendiate en · VERB

Etymology

From Latin stipendiatus, past participle of stipendiari (“to receive pay”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To provide (someone) with a stipend, or salary; to pay, support or fund.
   • It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to ſtipendiate profeſſors;—but it may be a greater good to lower the duty upon paper, and upon tea, and upon bricks and timber. 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section II, page 14:
   • all the sciences are taught in the vulgar French by professors stipendiated by the greate Cardinal 1644 September 17 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 8 September 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:

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stipend