Sizar

Word SIZAR
Character 5
Hyphenation si zar
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Sizar"

What do we mean by sizar?

At certain universities, e.g. Cambridge and Dublin, a student who receives an allowance for his college expenses (a study grant), originally in return for serving other (paying) students.

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The word "sizar" in example sentences

He entered college as a sizar, that is, in return for doing the work of a servant he received free board and lodging in his college. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In his eighteenth year he entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a sizar, that is, a poor student who pays in part for his tuition by doing certain kinds of work. ❋ Thomas Gray (1743)

Gowan by making the Prunes and Prism school excessively polite to her, but not very intimate with her; and Little Dorrit, as an enforced sizar of that college, was obliged to submit herself humbly to its ordinances. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He thus came up to Trinity in 1812 as a “sub-sizar ❋ Snyder, Laura J. (2006)

I was a sizar at a fashionable school, a condition never premeditated. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had been a sizar at Cambridge and had there conducted himself at any rate successfully, for in due process of time he was an ❋ Unknown (2004)

A sizar at a Cambridge college, or a Bible-clerk at Oxford, has not pleasant days, or used not to have them half a century ago; but his position was recognised, and the misery was measured. ❋ Unknown (2004)

With this cat? quoth Panurge; the devil scratch me if I did not think it had been a young soft-chinned devil, which, with this same stocking instead of mitten, I had snatched up in the great hutch of hell as thievishly as any sizar of Montague college could have done. ❋ Unknown (2002)

He is a young sizar, a second-year student of no great attainment. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Darwin sat down at Wentworth's side, picked absently at the plate of fruit in front of him, and summarized his conversation with the young sizar. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Abraham Shackleton would not be likely to see much of the wild and squalid sizar. ❋ Various (N/A)

Christ Church, Oxford, as a sizar, or poor scholar, he happened about the time of taking his degree to cross the quadrangle at the moment when a nobleman of great position was asking the dean to recommend a tutor for his son. ❋ Various (N/A)

But as his father could not afford the money he was obliged, much against his will, to go as a sizar. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Let the poor sizar toil over musty books; he will have ❋ Various (N/A)

Born in London in 1552, the son of a clothmaker, Spenser past from the newly established M.rchant Taylors 'school to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, as a sizar, or poor student, and during the customary seven years of residence took the degrees of B.A. and, in 1576, of M. A. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

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