STIPEND  , a fixed periodical

payment or 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 United Kingdom a paid magistrate or justice of the peace, appointed by the 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 campaign, e.g. vicena stipendia meritis (Tac . Ann. i . 17) . It also meant a tax or impost, payable in money .