demy

• (scholarship): From Latin demi-socii (“half-fellows”); see socius.

demy (countable and uncountable, plural demies)

1. A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
2. (colloquial) One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for Magdalen College, Oxford.
   • 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;

3. Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.
   • 2013, Hedwig Gwosdek, “The grammar atttributed to William Lily”, in Lily's grammar of Latin in English : an introduction of the eyght partes of speche, and the construction of the same, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 89:

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

• double demy
• junior demy
• music demy
• quad demy
• senior demy

• emyd

demy m (plural demys)

1. half (50% of something)

• French: demi