sizar
noun
(at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.
sizarship
-
a word derived from
sizar.
Example Sentences
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Yes, and although they refused me a sizarship in Trinity College—for what will not fear and envy do?
From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
In the course of his first year he read for and obtained a sizarship, to which the college records show that he was duly admitted on the 6th of July, 1733.
From Sterne by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
At last he won a mathematical sizarship in Trinity College.
From The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham
I have seen some of these men attain high position in the world of politics or science, and yet still retain a look of labyrinth and Johnian sizarship.
From The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
After the sizarship he won a scholarship, and then, at an unusually early age, a fellowship.
From The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham
