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noun

Pensionary n. (pl. pensionaries)

One who receives a pension; a pensioner.

One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.

Grand pensionary, the title of the prime minister, or or president of the Council, of Holland when a republic.

adjective

Pensionary adj.

Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.

Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance.

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... want of money through the expensive scandals of his court. There were half a dozen ducal titles needing to be provided with ducal incomes, and obliging the king to become a dependent pensionary of the liberal paymaster in France. At his death all this was changed, and Catharine Sedley disappeared from Whitehall. It is true that her absence was not prolonged, and that she had obscurer rivals. But a decorous economy was observed ...

— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

... escaped, and crossed its surface cheerfully and merrily. On its shores are situated the beautiful ladies' pensionary, Wadstena, and the celebrated mountain Omberg, at whose foot a ...

— Visit to Iceland - and the Scandinavian North • Ida Pfeiffer

... walls of Amsterdam. In the first mad paroxysm of their despair the people rose against their leaders. De Ruyter, who had borne their flag to victory on many a hard fought day, was insulted in the public streets: the Grand Pensionary, John De Witt, and his brother Cornelius were brutally murdered before the palace of the States-General at the Hague. The office of Stadtholder was re-established; and the common voice called back to it a prince of that House which twenty years ago had ...

— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris

... of the ecclesiastics, who could admit of no freedoms, contributed to spread this opinion among the people; and as Rizzio was universally believed to be a pensionary of the pope's, and to be deeply engaged in all schemes against the Protestants, any story to his and Mary's disadvantage received an easy credit among the zealots of that communion. Rizzio, who had connected his ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume