单词 | pensioned |
释义 | pensionedadj. Of a person: receiving a pension. In early use usually: (depreciative) †hired, bribed, or controlled through the payment of a pension (obsolete). Now chiefly: retired on a pension. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [adjective] > pension > receiving a pension pensioned1611 pensionable1882 society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > relating to retirement > retired > on a pension superannuated1703 pensioned-off1841 pensioned1897 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pensionné, pensioned, stipended, hired by pension, that takes an yearelie stipend. 1733 A. Pope 1st Satire 2nd Bk. Horace Imitated 15 Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest Strain Flatt'rers and Bigots ev'n in Louis' Reign? 1794 A. L. Barbauld Reasons for National Penitence 30 The cringing servilities of those titled or pensioned slaves. 1844 P. Harwood Hist. Irish Rebellion 50 Every liberal..motion..was unfailingly crushed by placed and pensioned majorities. 1897 Daily News 26 Feb. 7/4 Among the others engaged..are twelve pensioned policemen, six army pensioners, and two pensioned firemen. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 99/2 Besides the professors, there are four pensioned adjuncts, who are present at the meetings of the society, and succeed to the first vacancies. 1990 W. Perriam Fifty-minute Hour (1991) xi. 169 He's not my type at all, looks less like a dentist than a failed and pensioned bank manager in a Burton suit and toecaps. CompoundsΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific great Parliamentc1450 Good Parliament1580 addle parliament1614 giunto1641 junto1641 Unlearned Parliament1643 Long Parliament1646 rump?1653 Short Parliament1653 lay Parliament1655 Barebone's Parliament1657 Rump Parliament1659 Little Parliamenta1675 Long Parliament1678 Pensioner Parliament1678 Pensioned Parliament1681 Bluestocking Parliamenta1683 Pension Parliament1682 Pensionary Parliament1690 marvellous Parliament?1706 rumple1725 lack-learning Parliament1765 unreported Parliament1839 Cavalier Parliament1849 Addled Parliament1857 merciless Parliament1875 wonderful Parliament1878 nominated Parliament1898 1681 T. Rymer Gen. Draught Governm. Europe 76 Neither the Gunpowder Treason, nor the late more sacred invention of a Pensioned Parliament, could take effect. 1689 Danger Mercenary Parl. 3 These and all the other mischiefs of that reign are justly chargeable to the account of that pensioned parliament. 1795 S. T. Coleridge Plot Discovered 31 Historical essays..describing the conduct of the pensioned parliament of Charles the Second. a1822 P. B. Shelley Masque of Anarchy xxi, in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1904) 367 So he [sc. Anarchy] sent his slaves before To seize upon the Bank and Tower, And was proceeding with intent To meet his pensioned Parliament. 1896 J. R. Seeley Introd. Polit. Sci. (1901) ii. iii. 263 The Long Parliament of the Restoration was so much exposed to corruption that it was called the Pensioned Parliament. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611 |
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