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Definition of Subsizar
1. n. An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.
Definition of Subsizar
1. Noun. (UK Cambridge University) An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subsizar
1. a Cambridge undergraduate [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsizar
Literary usage of Subsizar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College Life in the Time of James the First: As Illustrated by an by John Howard Marsden (1851)
"All the offices of the subsizar, which we find alluded to in this Diary, are the
calling up to morning chapel, announcing at the same time ' what it is of ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"... Bentley was a subsizar at St. John's college, Cambridge, in 1676, at the age
of fourteen. Whether the story be true or not that Milton was birched by ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"... Cheshire, who was educated at Wrexham, was admitted a subsizar of St.
John's College, Cambridge, on 3 July 1719, graduated BA ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"He was educated at t he city grammar school under John Burton, and on 9 May 1083
was admitted subsizar of Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in ..."
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