demy

demy englanniksi

1. A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.

2. One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for (w).

3. 1781, Johnson|Samuel Johnson, ''Addison'', ''of the Most Eminent English Poets|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; (..)

4. Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.

5. (quote-book) was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen

6. half (50% of something)