PENSION

Definitions

1. 1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.
2. 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. 3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.] Mozley & W.
4. 4. A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.