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subsizar|sʌbˈsaɪzə(r)|
Also 6 subsiser, -cer, 6–7 -zer, 7 -cizer.
[sub- 6.]
In the University of Cambridge (latterly only at Trinity and Emmanuel colleges) an undergraduate (having special need of pecuniary assistance and formerly performing menial offices) ranking below a sizar.
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ii. ii, Doth not all the towne crie out, and say, Frier Bacons subsiser is the greatest blockhead in all Oxford? a1616Beaum. & Fl. Elder Brother i. ii, [Charles, a Scholar, loq.] Bid my Subsiser carry my Hackney to buttry. 1618D'Ewes in Autobiog. (1845) I. 107 At the same time was admitted one Thomas Manning to be my sub-sizar. a1635Corbet Poems (1672) 102 The King being gone from Trinity, They make a Scramble for Degree; Masters of all sorts, and all Ages, Keepers, Subcizers, Lackeyes, Pages. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 227 John Penry..became a Subsizer of Peter House in Cambridge, about 1578. 1853Camb. Univ. Comm. Index 157 Trinity College: The number of sub-sizars is unlimited; the only advantage possessed by a sub-sizar is, that he pays 4l. instead of 10l. for tuition, and that the admission fee is 2l. 15s. instead of 5l. 1866Stud. Guide Univ. Camb. 371 The Subsizars succeed the Sizars in order of merit, as vacancies occur. 1884Mullinger Univ. Camb. fr. 1535 to Chas. I, 339 The chapel clerk, the porter at the gate,..and the steward were..generally recruited from the subsizars. 1902Stud. Handbk. Univ. Camb. v. 97 Subsizarships are tenable for one year, but each Subsizar (if he has passed the Previous Examination..) will be elected into a Sizarship at the end of his first year.
†b. fig. A menial, lacquey. Obs.
16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iv. ii. 1565 Which that one ey'd subsicer of the skie, Don Phœbus empties by caliditie. 1644Cleveland Char. Lond. Diurn. 5 O brave Oliver! Times voyder, Sub-sizer to the Wormes.
Hence subˈsizarship, the position of a subsizar.
[1589: see subsistership.]
1599Broughton's Lett. i. 6 He pities your madnes (being acquainted therewith from your subsizership in Trinitie Colledge). 1853Camb. Univ. Comm. Index 157. 1894 Daily News 14 June 7/7 The following scholarships will be offered:..together with two subsizarships (limited to properly qualified candidates in need of assistance). 1902[see above]. |