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sizar

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.