Meanings
present singular third person stipendiates · participle present stipendiating · participle past stipendiated · past stipendiated
- archaicobsoletetransitiveTo provide (someone) with a stipend, or salary; to pay, support or fund.
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, →OCLC1 more example
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 14Synonyms: stipend
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo provide (someone) with a stipend, or salary; to pay, support or fund.
Origin
- Latinstipendiatus
- Englishstipendiate
From Latin stipendiatus, past participle of stipendiari (“to receive pay”).
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