Category:Pension

Pen"sion, n. Etym: [f., fr. L. pensio a paying, payment, fr. pendere, Pensum, to weight, to pay; akin to pend to hang. See pendant, and cf. Spend.]

1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.

2. A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; Payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, Disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a Government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the Families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or The like. To all that kept the city pensions and wages. 1 esd. iv. 56.

3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [eng.] Mozley & w.

4. Etym: [f., pronounced .]

Defn: a boarding house or boarding school in france, belgium, Switzerland, etc.

Pension Pen"sion, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pensioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pensioning.]

Defn: to grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in Consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by Off; as, to pension off a servant. One knighted blackmore, and one pensioned quarles. Pope.