demy
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Definition of demy
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
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(colloquial, countable, uncountable)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; […]”
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(countable, uncountable)Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.
“William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen”
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Etymology
* (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.
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