sizarship

“About the hospital, Mr. Harding?” began Mr. Slope, speaking of it as the head of a college at Cambridge might speak of some sizarship which had to be disposed of.

Barchester Towers 2004

Twice I tried for a sizarship at Clare Hall, — but in vain.

An Autobiography 2004

He won a sizarship in 1859, a scholarship in 1861 and took his

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The sizar at Cambridge had, however, always a better status than the servitor at Oxford, and in the days when scholarships were strictly limited as to locality, a sizarship was something of the nature of what at the present day we should describe as an entrance scholarship or exhibition, the assistance given consisting in a reduction of expenses rather than in actual direct emolument.

St. John's College, Cambridge Robert Forsyth Scott 1891

In the course of his first year he read for and obtained a sizarship, to which the college records show that he was duly admitted on the 6th of July, 1733.

Sterne Traill, H D 1882

Through Halifax School and Cambridge sizarship Laurence Sterne passed, by the patronage of his pluralist uncle, Jacques Sterne, into holy orders and the living of Sutton-on-the-Forest, and so into twenty years of almost complete obscurity.

A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

I have seen some of these men attain high position in the world of politics or science, and yet still retain a look of labyrinth and Johnian sizarship.

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

Unable to endure the notion of going to hall, which would be a painful reminder that the opportunity to which he had long looked for emancipation from his sizarship had passed by, he determined to take some wine, in the hope that it would support him till the evening.

Julian Home 1867

Twice I tried for a sizarship at Clare Hall, -- but in vain.

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope 1848

"About the hospital, Mr. Harding?" began Mr. Slope, speaking of it as the head of a college at Cambridge might speak of some sizarship which had to be disposed of.

Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1848