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sizar |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sizar \Si"zar\, n. One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. --Macaulay. Note: They formerly waited on the table at meals; but this is done away with They were probably so called from being thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions. See 4th {Size}, 2.
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