pensionar, pencionary

& s. [Fr. pensionnaire; Sp. & Ital. pension a rio.] A. As adjective: IMG:content-0852.png:[blocks in formation] 1. One who is maintained by, or is in receipt of a pension; a pensioner. "That order be taken for the more speedy payment of pensions to all priests, pensionaries , ." -Burnet: Rec ords , vol. ii., pt. ii., No. 16. 2. One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland. *Grand Pensionary: The title given to the prime minister or to the president of the council of the United Provinces of Holland under the old Republican Government. pěn-sion-er, *pen-tion-er, subst. [Eng. pen sion; -er.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who is in receipt of a pension; one to whom a pension is paid in consideration of past services. 2. One who receives an annual allowance in return for certain services. 3. One who is dependent on the bounty of another; a dependent. 4. An attendant. ( Milton : Il Penseroso , 10.) II. Technically : 1. In the University of Cambridge, one who pays for his commons out of his own income. (Fr. pensionnaire.) The same as a Commoner at Oxford. ( Eng .) 2. One of the honorable band of gentlemen who attend upon the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive a pension or annual allowance of £150 and two horses. They are now called the Honorable Body of Gentlemen-at-Arms. They were instituted by Henry VII. [Fr. pens if , as if from a Lat. pensivus , from pen so = pěn'-sive, *pen-sif, *pen-sife, *pen-syve, a. to ponder; Ital. pensivo .] 1. Thoughtful; weighing, deliberating, or pondering seriously; engaged in or given to serious and earnest thought or musing; hence, with an implied idea of melancholy and anxiety; sad, serious, anxious, melancholy. "My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now." Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, iv. 1. 2. Giving rise to or encouraging sad and melancholy thoughts. "Silent, unmov'd, in dire dismay they stand, A pensive scene!" Pope: Homer's Iliad , x. 41. 3. Expre ing thoughtfulne with sadne ; as, pensive strains. †pěn-sived, a. [Eng. pensiv (e); -ed.] Pensive, melancholy. "Lo! all these trophies of affections hot, Of pensiv'd and subdued desires the tender." Shakesp.: Complaint of a Lover , 219. pěn-sive-lý, adv . [Eng. pensive ; -ly.] In a pensive manner; with pensivene ; sadly. "Two bosom friends, each pensively incl in'd." Cowper: Conversation, 507.