Stipulate

v. i. [imp. & p. p. STIPULATED; p. pr. & vb. n. STIPULATING.] [Lat. stipulari, stipulatus, originally to conclude a money transaction, from stips, stipis, a gift in small coin; It. stipulare, Sp. & Pg. estipular, Fr. stipular, Fr. stipuler. Cf. STIPEND.] To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear any thing; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.

a. [N. Lat. stipulatus, Fr. stipulé.] (Bot.) Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.