demy
English
Etymology
- (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.
Noun
demy (countable and uncountable, plural demies)
- 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.
- 2013, Hedwig Gwosdek, “The grammar atttributed to William Lily”, in Lily's grammar of Latin in English : an introduction of the eyght partes of speche, and the construction of the same, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 89:
- William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen
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Middle French
Noun
demy m (plural demys)
- half (50% of something)
Descendants
- French: demi