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

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)

The heir turned out a thorough miser, And lived as lives the college sizar; He took no joy in show or feat, And starving did not choose to eat.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John

From Liverpool he went on to Cambridge to offer himself as a sizar at the University.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

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.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Among other duties, a sizar had, with some of the scholars, to wait at table, a service not abolished until 6th May 1786.

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