Word Meanings - STIPENDIARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Receiving wages, or salary; performing services for a stated price or compensation. His great stipendiary prelates came with troops of evil-appointed horseman not half full. Knolles.

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• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• WAGES
  A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund , the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is
• STATABLE
  That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• STATISTICS
  Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular
• STATANT
  In a standing position; as, a lion statant.
• STATHMOGRAPH
  A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• STATUARY
  The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple. 3. A collection of statues; statues, collectively. (more info) statuarius, a., of or belonging to statues, fr. statua statue:
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• ESTATLICH; ESTATLY
  Stately; dignified. Chaucer.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• HEMASTATICS
  Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• BIOSTATICS
  The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.