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▪ I. pensionary, n.1|ˈpɛnʃənərɪ|
[ad. med.L. pensiōnāri-us: see pension n. and -ary1 B. 1; cf. F. pensionnaire (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. One who receives a pension; often with sinister implication: One who is attached by a pension to the interest of a person or persons (expressed or implied); a creature, hireling: = pensioner 1.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 236 Many other of his Counsaill, had been in fee and pencionaries, of the Frenche kyng. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 182 A sure enemie to the Spaniards, and to all his Favorites, partizans, and pensionaries. 1613Sherley Trav. Persia 33 The Tartars..through their dependance vpon the Turke, whose religion they professe..and whose pentionaries they were. 1698[R. Ferguson] View Eccles. 84, I will not discover at present whom I know Court Pensionaries among the Presbyterian Ministers. 1874Motley Barneveld I. viii. 343 A traitor to his country and a pensionary to her deadliest foe. 1874Green Short Hist. x. §2. 759 The Nabob sank into a pensionary.
†b. The recipient of an ecclesiastical pension.
1536Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 28 All persones and vicares and other beneficed men and pensionaries within this deanry not being resident upon their benefices.
†c. A soldier, etc., receiving pay. Obs.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. iv. C vj (Ethiope), Ther are througheout the whole nacion certeine houses and stockes, that are pencionaries at armes. 1582Bps.' Transcripts of Norton in Kent (MS.), Was buried Julij 6. John Quylter, one of y⊇ pensionaries of Deale castle.
d. One maintained by charity or in a charitable institution: cf. pensioner 1 c.
1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore. Throat 1 That Species of Squinancy, which reigned last Year..amongst the Pensionaries of the Visitation of St. Mary in the Back-Street.
2. [= Du. pensionaris.] Formerly, the chief municipal magistrate of a Dutch city, with the function of a legal adviser or speaker. Hist.
1587Holinshed Chron. III. 1411/1 Iosse de Menin, councellor and pensionarie of Dordreght. 1727Chambers Cycl., Pensio[n]ary, is the first minister of the regency of each city, in the province of Holland... His office is to give his advice in matters relating to the government, either of the city in particular, or of the state in general; and in assemblies of the states of the province is speaker in behalf of his city. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour, Netherl. I. 287 [Dunkirk] is governed after the manner of Flanders by a burgomaster or mayor, echevins or aldermen, and a pensionary or recorder. 1864Kirk Chas. Bold II. iii. i. 45 A deputation, headed by Jean Sersanders, the pensionary of Ghent.
b. esp. (properly Grand Pensionary = Du. Groot Pensionaris): The first minister and magistrate of the state or province of Holland and Zealand in the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands (1619–1794), who was by virtue of his office president of the legislature of the province, and permanent deputy to the States General.
The dignity was first created by Johan van Olden Barneveldt, under the title of Advocate of Holland and West Friesland; it attained to great distinction when held by Johan de Witt 1653–72.
1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 232 Shee sent to Mr. Oudart, who wes at the Hage, and commanded him to goe to the Pensionary de Witte and assure him [etc.]. 1668Lond. Gaz. No. 283/3 The Heer de Wit is still to continue Pensionary, and for an acknowledgement of the good services he has done, his Salary is raised to 3000 Guilders per annum. 1761–2Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lx. 539 They immediately dispatched Paw, pensionary of Holland [1631–36], as their ambassador extraordinary to London. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 337 Grand Pensionary, formerly called the advocate of the republic. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi. III. 68 The office of Pensionary, always important, was peculiarly important when the Stadtholder was absent from the Hague. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. xli. 235 The commercial treaty between France and the United States was, about the same time, delivered to the Grand Pensionary and to the Pensionary of Amsterdam.
c. transf. Applied as a satirical nickname to English statesmen.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 2 June, Ha! there's the other great phænomenon, the grand pensionary [Pitt], that weather⁓cock of patriotism, that veers about in every point of the political compass, and still feels the wind of popularity in his tail. 1836Disraeli Runnymede Lett. (1885) 206 This grand pensionary of bigotry and sedition presumes to stir up the people of England against your high estate.
3. = pensioner 5. (In quot., a church or chapel charged with an annual payment to a mother church.)
1891P. G. Stone Archit. Antiq. I. Wight iii. 5 The Parish of Brighstone..a chapel was built here... Being built after the foundation of Calbourne church, this latter claimed it as a pensionary.
▪ II. ˈpensionary, n.2
[f. pension n. + -ary1 B. 2; on L. type *pensiōnāria or -ārium.]
A dwelling or place of residence for pensioners: formerly, at Cambridge, a residence for undergraduates not on the foundation of a college.
1582–3in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 248 For thatchinge the barne and stable in Pensionary..xlvjs. 1621Ibid. I. 186 The chambers in y⊇ late pensionary. 1698Ibid., Y⊇ Battlements in y⊇ Pensionarie towards the Street. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 41. 1886 Willis & Clark Cambridge II. 248 Accommodation [for more students] was provided [c 1590] in some houses opposite the college [St. John's], on the site of which the New Divinity School partly stands. This was called ‘The Pentionary’.
▪ III. pensionary, a.|ˈpɛnʃənərɪ|
[ad. med.L. pensiōnāri-us: see pension n. and -ary1 A.]
1. That is in receipt of a pension or bounty; in the pay of a person or persons expressed or implied; hence, mercenary, hireling, venal.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 236 To thintent to bragge another day, that the kynges Chamberlain of Englande, hath been pencionary, with the Frenche kyng. 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. iii. 136 Fraunce, and Flanders, too full of his pencionary troupes. 1679–88Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden) 124 To Mary, widow of Henry Peacock, pencionary trumpeter to King Charles the Second, bounty..20 0 0. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 268. 1825 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. CVI. 488 An extensive pensionary clergy. 1837[see parliament n.1 8]. 1880Masson Milton VI. 221.
2. Consisting, or of the nature, of a pension.
1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Launderer 59 Her age receives for her long service a pencionary recompence. 1771–2Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773) II. 127 They even obtained pensionary favours for years. 1889Times 19 June, The pensionary aid is insignificant.
†3. Characterized by an ecclesiastical pension or endowment. Obs.
1569Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 684 He is lauchfullie providit of auld in and to the vicarag pensionarie of the samyn. |