'Sizar' definitions:

Definition of 'Sizar'

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  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'sizar'

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  • Batteler \Bat"tel*er\, Battler \Bat"tler\, n. [See 2d Battel, n.] A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. --Wright. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'sizar'

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  • Famulist \Fam"u*list\, n. [L. famulus servant.] A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge. [Oxford Univ., Eng.] [1913 Webster]