Sizar

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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