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

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. 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.

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