What does demy mean?
Demy means A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches..
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; […]
William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen
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Demy means A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches..
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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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