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Stipendiary

adjective

Pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance.

Receiving or eligible for compensation. Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried. "A stipendiary magistrate"

For which money is paid. Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried. "Remunerative work" , "Salaried employment" , "Stipendiary services"

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... no doubt doing his best to express the attitude of society toward these wearily heroic defendants, but he seemed to be merely rude and unfair to Ann Veronica. He was not, it seemed, the proper stipendiary at all, and there had been some demur to his jurisdiction that had ruffled him. He resented being regarded as irregular. He felt he was human wisdom prudentially interpolated.... "You silly wimmin," he said over and over again throughout the hearing, plucking at his blotting-pad with ...

— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells

... detained for twenty-four hours, but not longer, except on the order of some competent authority. In the matter of discharges, he proposed that patients should be discharged on the order of a Judge in Chambers, a stipendiary magistrate, or a County Court judge, who should order two medical men to visit the lunatic, and report on the case; and such judge, after communicating with the Lunacy Commissioners, might order the lunatic to be liberated within ten days. As to private asylums, Mr. Dillwyn knew that the ...

— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... compen'dium (Lat. n. compen'dium, that which is weighed, saved, shortened) ; compen'dious (Lat. adj. compendio'sus, brief, succinct); expend'; expen'diture ; sti'pend (Lat. n. stipen'dium, literally, the pay of soldiers); stipendiary. ...

— New Word-Analysis - Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words • William Swinton

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