Middle English Dictionary Entry
stīpend(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | stīpend(e n. Also stipendi; pl. stipendies, ? stipendi. |
| Etymology | OF stipende, (late 15th cent.) stipendie & L stīpendium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A wage or salary; of propre ~ and god, on (one's) own income.
Associated quotations
- (1444-6) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)287 : Payd to William Halyngryge our bedell for his stipend for a yere and iij quarters, v li. xvj s. viij d.
- (1445) Visit.Alnwick116b : Yit are ye [Prioress] allowede at alle tymes as for the stypende and vytayle for foure prestes.
- (1473) Visit.Episc.Lin.in Archaeol.48251 : Þe fader of þis seyd Bluet hyred the forseyd S. herry cawnt for x yerys euery yere to haue for his stypend vij merkes.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.189 : The Romanes vsede this consuetude, that men vsenge batelles scholde lyve of theire propre stipendies and goodes.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)3.441 : If the faders diede theire sonnes scholde haue theire stipendy [Trev.: þe wages of þe fader; L stipendia paterna].
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.383 : Themperour..commaundynge his knyȝhtes to leve rape and thefte and not ȝiffynge to theym stipendies as thei were wonte to have, [etc.].
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.403 : The consuetude of the churche of Rome is that iiij porcions be made of every stipendy [L stipendio] congruente.