See Also: pensionary(medicine)
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pensionary(dictionary)

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pensionary noun1. Now rare. M16.
[medieval Latin pensionarius receiver or payer of a pension, from Latin pensio(n-): see PENSION, -ARY1.]
A person receiving a pension; spec. a person in the pay or hire of another, a hireling. M16.
The chief municipal magistrate of a Dutch city; esp. (also Grand Pensionary) the first minister and magistrate of the former Dutch province of Holland and Zeeland. obsolete exc. Hist. L16.