- Look up
sinecure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
sinecure (/ˈsɪnɪkjʊər/ or /ˈsaɪnɪkjʊər/; from the
Latin sine, 'without', and cura, 'care') is a...
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receive the
pension benefits of full
general he was
given the
newly created sinecurist (honorarium) post of
Middle East
Advisor to the
Secretary of
State for...
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disproportionate to the
needs of its worshippers, and
consisted largely of
absentee sinecurists.
Given that in
Ireland not even
nominal adherence by the predominantly...
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enclosures and
returning to the gold standard. He
opposed borough-mongers,
sinecurists,
bureaucratic "tax-eaters" and stockbrokers. His
radicalism furthered...
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between 1830 and 1840. As
Registrar of the
Court of Admiralty, he was a
sinecurist,
having waited 26
years for the
office through reversion; the
actual work...
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Regent in The
Political Litany (1817), and the third, for
publishing the
Sinecurist's Creed (1817), a
parody on the
Athanasian Creed, were
before Lord Ellenborough...
- the Vice-Admiralty
Court of
Antigua around this time. The
value to the
sinecurist of an
office like that of
Paymaster of
Marines lay not so much in the...
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commissioners of lunacy,
accused of
being bedridden with gout, and a "
sinecurist";
though he was
active in inspections. He
subsequently became inspector...
