demy
Noun
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Noun
demy
- A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
- (colloquial) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132 ↗,
- […] by whose recommendations he was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called scholars, young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships; […]
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132 ↗,
- Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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