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Sizar
(gcide) | Sizar \Si"zar\, n.
One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge
(Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination,
are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar
corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
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The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very
little for lodging. --Macaulay.
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Note: They formerly waited on the table at meals; but this is
done away with. They were probably so called from being
thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions.
See 4th Size, 2.
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sizar
(gcide) | Batteler \Bat"tel*er\, Battler \Bat"tler\, n. [See 2d Battel,
n.]
A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the
buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he
called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
--Wright.
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sizar
(gcide) | Famulist \Fam"u*list\, n. [L. famulus servant.]
A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to
the sizar at Cambridge. [Oxford Univ., Eng.]
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sizar
(gcide) | Sizar \Si"zar\, n.
One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge
(Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination,
are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar
corresponded to a servitor at Oxford.
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The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very
little for lodging. --Macaulay.
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Note: They formerly waited on the table at meals; but this is
done away with. They were probably so called from being
thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions.
See 4th Size, 2.
[1913 Webster]Batteler \Bat"tel*er\, Battler \Bat"tler\, n. [See 2d Battel,
n.]
A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the
buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he
called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
--Wright.
[1913 Webster]Famulist \Fam"u*list\, n. [L. famulus servant.]
A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to
the sizar at Cambridge. [Oxford Univ., Eng.]
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Sizarship
(gcide) | Sizarship \Si"zar*ship\, n.
The position or standing of a sizar.
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Subsizar
(gcide) | Subsizar \Sub*si"zar\, n.
An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.
[Cambridge Univ. Eng.]
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Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and
give him his bever. --J. Fletcher.
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