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Pensionary   Listen
noun
Pensionary  n.  (pl. pensionaries)  
1.
One who receives a pension; a pensioner.
2.
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.





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"Pensionary" Quotes from Famous Books



... not consent to grant all our demands. I had not been long at the place of appointment when the two above-mentioned lords of Ravestein and Des Cordes arrived, attended by several persons of quality, and by certain commissioners on the part of the city, one of whom was their pensionary, named Monsieur John de la Vaquerie, whom they appointed to be their spokesman, and who since that time has been made first president of ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8 - The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation • Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson


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