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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Demi- \Dem"i-\ [F. demi-, fr L. dimidius half; di- = dis- + medius middle. See {Medium}, and cf {Demy}, {Dimidiate}.] A prefix, signifying half. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Demi \De*mi"\, n. See {Demy}, n. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Demy \De*my"\, n.; pl {Demies}. [See {Demi-}.] 1. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under {Paper}. 2. A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also {demi}.] He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called ``scholars,'' young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. --Johnson.
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