Category:Sizar

Si"zar, n.

Defn: one of a body of students in the universities of cambridge (eng.) and dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are Exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded To a servitor at oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for Lodging. Macaulay.

Note: they formerly waited on the table at meals; but this is done Away with. They were probably so called from being thus employed in Distributing the size, or provisions. See 4th size, 2.