Definition of Subsizar. Meaning of Subsizar. Synonyms of Subsizar

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Definition of Subsizar

Subsizar
Subsizar Sub*si"zar, n. An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar. [Cambridge Univ. Eng.] Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. --J. Fletcher.

Meaning of Subsizar from wikipedia

- maintained by fellow-commoners and fellows were called subsizars. Isaac Newton matriculated as subsizar at Trinity College. Richard S. Westfall noted that...
- recommended him to the university. At Cambridge, Newton started as a subsizar, paying his way by performing valet duties until he was awarded a scholarship...
- exchange for menial duties. Oliver Goldsmith was a sizar; Isaac Newton was a subsizar. These distinctions were gradually phased out during the 19th century....
- Thomas Watson of Stockton. From Durham grammar school he was admitted as subsizar at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 2 February 1683–4, and graduated B.A...
- mathematics. Barker entered Trinity College, Cambridge as minor scholar and subsizar in 1858. He became foundation scholar in 1860, Sheepshanks astronomical...
- Birmingham, under Dr. Lee. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a subsizar in 1848, graduated as ninth in the first class of the classical tripos...
- 2009. After being educated at Durham grammar school, he was admitted as subsizar at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 2 February 1684, and graduated BA in...