Demy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Demy is a noun meaning A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
Meaning
A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
More Meanings
- (colloquial) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
- Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Example Sentences
William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen
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; […]
Word Forms
- demies
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