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Webster 1913 Edition
Demy
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 “scholars,” young men who partake of the founder’s benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships. Johnson.
De-my′
,Adj.
Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy;
as, a
. demy
bookWebster 1828 Edition
Demy
DEMY
,1.
A particular size of paper; a kind of paper of small size.2.
A half fellow at Magdalen college, Oxford.