stipend

1. (archaic) A regular fixed payment made to someone (especially a clergyman, judge, soldier, or teacher) for services provided by them; a salary. [from 15th c.]Examples: "He ſent for Ariſtotle (the greateſt Philoſopher in his time, & beſt learned) to teach his ſonne, vnto vvhom he gaue honorable ſtipend."; "For Cynthia doth in ſciences abound, / And giues to their profeſſors ſtipends large."; "A man can never vviſh for any thing greater then this immortality, […] It is the gift [o]f God; a donative beyond the ὀψώνιον, the military ſtipend, it is beyond our vvork, and beyond our vvages, and beyond the promiſe, and beyond our thoughts, and above our underſtandings, and above the higheſt heavens, it is a participation of the joyes of God, and of the inheritance of the Judge himſelf."archaic

2. (by extension)Examples: "My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses."; "The Romaynes, […] appointed alſo the Cenſores to allovv out of the common butche^([sic – meaning hutche]) yearely ſtipendes, for the findings of certaine geeſe; […]"; "[T]here vvas no meane prince in all India vvhich vvas not Lord of many Elephants. The king of Palibotræ kept in ſtipend, eight thouſand euery day, […]"broadly

3. (by extension)broadly

4. (obsolete)Examples: "And that knights competency you haue gotten / VVith care and labour: he vvith luſt and idleneſſe / VVill bring into the ſtypend of a begger; […]"obsolete

5. (obsolete)Examples: "["H]e [Jesus] vvas man, he took upon him our ſins;" Not the vvork of ſin, I mean not ſo, not to do it, not to commit it, but to purge it, to cleanſe it, to bear the ſtipend of it: […]"; "This fight vvas ſo vvell performed, that a report vvent currant, of Castor and Pollux, tvvo Gods, vvho came on milke-vvhite Steeds, to be eye vvitneſſes of their valour, and fellovv helpers of their victorie; for the Generall conſecrated a Temple to them, as a ſtipend for their paines."; "Lo, Death is novv, as alvvayes it hath bin, / The iuſt procured ſtipend of our ſinne: […]"obsolete