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

noun demies

countable, uncountable A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
colloquial, countable, uncountable 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 w
countable, uncountable 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

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@misc{demy_2026,
  title = {demy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/demy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}