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Webster 1913 Edition
Demy
1.
A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under
Paper
. 2.
A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.
[Written also
demi
.] 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. Johnson.
De-my′
,Adj.
Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy;
as, a
. demy
bookWebster 1828 Edition
Demy
DEMY
,1.
A particular size of paper; a kind of paper of small size.2.
A half fellow at Magdalen college, Oxford.Definition 2024
demy
demy
English
Noun
demy (plural demies)
- A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
- (colloquial) A demyship.
- 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; […] .
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132,
Derived terms
- double demy
- music demy
- quad demy