sizar

American  

[sahy-zer] / ˈsaɪ zər /

Or sizer

noun

1. (at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.

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sizar British  

/ ˈsaɪzə /

noun

1. (at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate receiving a maintenance grant from the college

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Other Word Forms

• sizarship
  noun
• subsizar
  noun
• subsizarship
  noun

Etymology

Origin of sizar

First recorded in 1580–90; size ¹ + -ar ³

Example Sentences

William Wordsworth, afterwards Poet Laureate, entered the College as a sizar, and was admitted a foundress' scholar 6th November 1787.

From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

Allied with Johnson in the feeling of humiliation at the position of a sizar in a College, Goldsmith went further, and questioned the whole policy of education at our schools and Universities.

From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang

He had entered Saint Werner’s as a sizar, he left it as a Fellow, and not “With academic laurels unbestowed.”

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

His family was poor, and the register of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, testifies to his entry as sizar on the 18th of May 1632.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

He was the son of a barber, but was well educated, and was able to enter Caius College as a sizar at thirteen.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George