stipendiate

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Archaic; Obsolete; Transitive verb

"all the sciences are taught in the vulgar French by professors stipendiated by the greate Cardinal"
"It is good to endow colleges, and to found chairs, and to ſtipendiate profeſſors;—but it may be a greater good to lower the duty upon paper, and upon tea, and upon bricks and timber."

From Latin stipendiatus, past participle of stipendiari (“to receive pay”).

stipendiates (present, singular) stipendiating (participle, present) stipendiated (participle, past) stipendiated (past)

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From Latin stipendiatus, past participle of stipendiari (“to receive pay”).

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