English Dictionary: demi | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for demi | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Demi- \Dem"i-\ [F. demi-, fr. L. dimidius half; di- = dis- + medius middle. See {Medium}, and cf. {Demy}, {Dimidiate}.] A prefix, signifying half. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Demi \De*mi"\, n. See {Demy}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Demy \De*my"\, n.; pl. {Demies}. [See {Demi-}.] 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 [bd]scholars,[b8] young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. --Johnson. |