What is "stipended"

Usage examples of "stipended".

Captain-colonel Yermyn was stipended in the spring, and Borlan Post will be reduced to a travel post under a captain at the turn of the year.

The Lord-Protector's acceptance of Colonel Weslyn's request to be stipended is enclosed, along with your orders and appointment as commandant of the Northern Guard.

But in due course the farmer's ugly daughter bore a fine son, who was stipended as a royal bastard, and she was able to attract a husband.

I must be most careful so that you can support me when I am stipended off as an old, old majer.