STIPEND  , a fixed periodical See also:

• PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment or See also:

• SALARY

salary for services rendered . The word is particularly used of the income from an ecclesiastical See also:

• BENEFICE (Lat. beneficium, benefit)

benefice or of the salary paid to any See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion . In the See also:

• UNITED

United See also:

• KINGDOM

Kingdom a paid See also:

• MAGISTRATE (Lat. magistratus, from magister, master, properly a public office, hence the person holding such an office)

magistrate or See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace, appointed by the See also:

• CROWN

Crown on the See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice of the See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

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 See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift, contribution (originally a heap of coins, stipare, to See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press; See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass together) and pendere, to weigh out, pay . This was applied first to the pay of the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, and hence was used in the sense of (After See also:

• NAUMANN, GEORG AMADEUS CARL FRIEDRICH (1797-1873)

Naumann.) military service, in such phrases as stipendia facere, and of a See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign, e.g. vicena stipendia meritis (Tac . See also:

• ANN

Ann. i . 17) . It also meant a tax or See also:

• IMPOST (through the O. Fr. from Lat. impositum, a thing laid upon another; the modern French is impot)

impost, payable in See also:

• MONEY

money .