stipend

A regular fixed payment made to someone (especially a clergyman, judge, soldier, or teacher) for services provided by them; a salary.archaic

• He ſent for Ariſtotle (the greateſt Philoſopher in his time, & beſt learned) to teach his ſonne, vnto vvhom he gaue honorable ſtipend.
• For Cynthia doth in ſciences abound, / And giues to their profeſſors ſtipends large.

Some other form of fixed (and generally small) payment occurring at regular intervals, such as an allowance, a pension, or (obsolete) a tax.broadly

• My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.

A scholarship granted to a student.broadly

Money which is earned; an income.obsolete

• And that knights competency you haue gotten / VVith care and labour: he vvith luſt and idleneſſe / VVill bring into the ſtypend of a begger; […]

A one-off payment for a service provided.obsolete

• ["H]e [Jesus] vvas man, he took upon him our ſins;" Not the vvork of ſin, I mean not ſo, not to do it, not to commit it, but to purge it, to cleanſe it, to bear the ſtipend of it: […]
• Lo, Death is novv, as alvvayes it hath bin, / The iuſt procured ſtipend of our ſinne: […]

To provide (someone) with a stipend (an allowance, a pension, a salary, etc.).historicalobsoletetransitive

• As well as enjoying links in the royal court, he [Nicolas Fouquet's grandson] was said to stipend some 200 individuals in the city of Paris to spread favourable news stories about himself.