stipendiary
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In times of crisis, 18 volunteer magistrates and a stipendiary full-time magistrate took charge of law and order, and it was this body of anxious men who would precipitate the crisis of the day.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2018
It's unlikely Jesus would have known Latin beyond a few words, says Jonathan Katz, stipendiary lecturer in Classics at Oxford University.
From BBC ● May 27, 2014
Later in the course of the inquiry the trainer and the stipendiary stewards were talking in Hindi and I couldn't understand what they were saying.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013
The stipendiary steward noted an explanation from Noel Quinlan that the horse's back problem had been treated since his previous start three months before.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2011
Some incumbents deserted their parishes to take stipendiary work in towns or secular employments, and unbeneficed clergy demanded higher stipends.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
As soon as peace is restored, we will send out of the kingdom all foreign knights, cross-bowmen, and stipendiaries, who are come with horses and arms to the molestation of our people.
From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by John Fiske
When it was proposed to make Members of Parliament stipendiaries of the State, they at first protested vehemently against the application of this principle to the Irish representatives, and therein they were right.
From Ireland Since Parnell by D. D. (Daniel Desmond) Sheehan
The great wire-puller and his gang of stipendiaries were the objects of popular gratitude and adoration.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Constance Fenimore Woolson
But this stipend should be independent of those to be continued to the stipendiaries of the Rajah.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
These bands of Northern stipendiaries assumed, therefore, a civil, as well as a military, importance; they were as indispensable to the safety of one state as they were destructive to the security of all.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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