Dictionary

demy en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
2. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
   • 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; […]
3. (countable, uncountable) Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.
   • William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen 2013, Hedwig Gwosdek, “The grammar atttributed to William Lily”, in Lily's grammar of Latin in English : an introduction of the eyght partes of speche, and the construction of the same, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 89:

Forms

Deriveds

junior demy · quad demy · music demy · double demy · senior demy