English Dictionary

demy

noun

A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches. / (colloquial) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford. / Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.

I need to print this document on a demy paper.

意味（1）

A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.

意味（2）

(colloquial) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.

[…] 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; […]

意味（3）

Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.

William Lily was admitted as a dumy to Magdalen College, Oxford, by November 1486, at the age of seventeen