Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An under-sizar; a student of lower standing than a sizar. Also spelled
subsizer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cambridge Univ. Eng. An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar.
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- noun UK An
under sizar ; astudent of lowerrank than a sizar.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"On a Winter day I took a small glass and so centered the sun's rays that I burned a hole in my coat," he wrote in his subsizar journal.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885
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A part of the duties of a subsizar was to clean boots, scrub floors and perform various other delightful tasks which everybody else evaded.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Trinity College as a subsizar, which means that he was admitted on suspicion.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885
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