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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Demy | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for Demy | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Demy \De*my"\, a. Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book. | |
