Obs. Also 7 stipen. [f. STIPEND sb. Cf. F. stipendier (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), Sp. estipendiar, It. stipendiare; also L. stipendiārī to be in receipt of pay.]
1. trans. To pay as a reward. (In the Fr. orig. stipendier is used as in 2 below; Caxton has mistaken or altered the construction.)
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, ix. 38. She wolde rewarde theym wyth suche guerdons as apperteyneth to grete and hie goddys to be stypended.
2. To provide with a stipend, salary or pension.
1597. Warner, Alb. Eng., IX. liii. 240. Scarse will their Studies stipend them, their wiues and Children cote.
1601. in Foley, Rec. Eng. Prov. S. J. (1880), VI. 735. He hath stipened one Allen, a soldier, a cunning fellow, for that purpose.
1620. Shelton, 2nd Pt. Quix., xlvii. 306. I, Sir, am a Physician, and am stipended in this Iland to bee so to the Gouernours of it.
1636. Direct. Cure of Plague, B 3 b. Three Chirurgions … are also to be stipended by the City.
1651. trans. Life Father Paul Sarpi (1676), 60. In Rome after they were secur’d and stipended for a time, it came after to a resolution of casting them into Prison.
