demy

Definition

A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.

Etymology

* (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.

Example Sentences

• "1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132, […] by whose recommendations 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; […]"
• "William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen"