Definition of "pensionary" [pen•sion•a•ry]

• Constituting a pension. (adjective)
• Mercenary; venal. (adjective)
• A pensioner. (noun)
• A hireling. (noun)

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• "That neither the American public nor its government will no longer tolerate being the pensionary policeman to the oil producer's extortion."
• "But I must also think of the total ruin of the cause, the confiscation and bloodshed which will take place among his adherents, and all through the infatuation with which he adheres to a woman who is the pensionary of the present minister, as she was for years"
• "The other is (I hear) intended for a share in the ad [ministratio] n, and the pensionary vouches for his being duly qualified — The only instance I ever heard of his sagacity, was his deserting his former patron, when he found him declining in power, and in disgrace with the people."