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Definition of Subsizars
1. subsizar [n] - See also: subsizar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsizars
Literary usage of Subsizars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge by Thomas Baker (1869)
"Of subsizars, 1571—1584; the counties, and fellow or master to whom the sizar
belongs, named (p. 458). j Of simple names with the counties, no date (p. ..."
2. A Historical Account of the University of Cambridge, and Its Colleges: In a by Benjamin Dann Walsh (1837)
"and also a dozen subsizars ;f and we obtain a grand total of 151 persons in the
pupillary state, beyond which number the College cannot ..."
3. Memorials of Cambridge by Charles Henry Cooper (1861)
"... twenty- three fellow commoners, fifty-five pensioners, and twenty-six subsizars,
in all three hundred and six. Dr. Caius states, that in 1573 there were ..."
4. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1865)
"subsizars are eligible also to these awards, if they gain a place in either of
the classes to which the awards are assigned. The fiev. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"... and subsizars, as the poorer students were designated, who received board, *
For one portion of the field, ..."
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