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noun

Pensionary n. (pl. pensionaries)

One who receives a pension; a pensioner.

One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.

Grand pensionary, the title of the prime minister, or or president of the Council, of Holland when a republic.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... halberdiers, his crown on his head and his sceptre in his hand, the Emperor, exalted, sat. The senators and burghers, in their robes cf humiliation, knelt in the dust at his feet. The prescribed words of contrition and of supplication for mercy were then read by the pensionary, all the deputies remaining upon their knees, and many of them crying bitterly with rage and shame. "What principally distressed them," said the honest citizen, whose admiration for the brilliant accoutrement of the ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... England had now joined Louis, who, in return for help in the Netherlands, was to furnish subsidies to assist Charles II. in establishing Catholicism in his realm. In Holland, there was a division between the republicans, of whom the grand pensionary, John de Witt, was the chief, and the adherents of ...

— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher

Words linked to "Pensionary" : pension, beneficiary, employee