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STIPEND

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 924 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STIPEND  , a fixed periodical

payment or
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salary for services rendered . The word is particularly used of the income from an ecclesiastical benefice or of the salary paid to any minister of religion . In the
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United
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Kingdom a paid magistrate or justice of the peace, appointed by the
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Crown on the advice of the home secretary for certain boroughs are termed " stipendiaries " or . " stipendiary magistrates " (see JUSTICE OF THE PEACE) . The Latin stipendium (for stipipendium) is derived from sties, a gift, contribution (originally a heap of coins, stipare, to press; mass together) and pendere, to weigh out, pay . This was applied first to the pay of the army, and hence was used in the sense of (After Naumann.) military service, in such phrases as stipendia facere, and of a
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campaign, e.g. vicena stipendia meritis (Tac .
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Ann. i . 17) . It also meant a tax or impost, payable in
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money .

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