The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pension \Pen"sion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pensioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pensioning.] To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of pension English)
Usage examples of "pensioning".
This habit of pensioning officials, as well as musicians and poets, is very agreeable to the Germans.
Carmichael & Short to insist on a mutual & formal stipulation to forbear employing agents or pensioning any persons within each other's limits: and if this be refused, to propose the contrary stipulation, to wit, that each party may freely keep agents within the Indian territories of the other, in which case we might soon sicken them of the license.
Because of the long-standing tradition that admirals never retired, nobody had ever thought to make provisions for pensioning off old warhorses.
For me the past was only a pensioning off: it was another way of existing, a state of vacation and inaction.