Defn: A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizarat Cambridge.
He remained at the latter place until 1650, early in which year his name was entered as a sizar on the boards of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He was admitted on the 21st June, but subsequently he transferred his allegiance to Magdalene College, where he was admitted a sizar on the 1st October of this same year.
The situation of a sub-sizar being looked upon in so degrading a light probably occasioned the extinction of the order.
But if a sizar did not choose to accept of these assistances upon such degrading terms, he dined in his own room, and was called a proper sizar.
Thus the term sub-sizar became forgotten, and the sizar was supposed to be the same as the servitor.
The sizar "is very much like the scholars at Westminster, Eton, &c.
These 'remains' are very liberally construed, the sizar always having fresh vegetables, and frequently fresh tarts and puddings.
After leaving school at Middleton, Curran passed to Trinity College, Dublin, which he entered as a sizarwhen nineteen years of age.
In 1626 he was admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, as a Sizar and took his B.
In 1643 at the age of eighteen he was admitted as a Sizar at Christ's and commenced B.
He was entered as a Sizar at Christ's, and commenced B.
He had been a Sizar of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1561 and graduated B.
Lightfoot, both of whom preceded him to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected a sub-sizar in 1848, becoming subsequently sizar and scholar.
The one certain event of Spenser's life in the year 1569 is that he was then entered as a sizar at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.
I really think, Julian," replied Mr Carden, "that the necessity which compels you to go up as a sizar will be good for you in many ways.
Never again while he remained a sizar did he hear the slightest unkind allusions to the circumstance, and but for the external regulations imposed by the college, he might even have forgotten the fact.
The two incidents that we have narrated made Julian fear that his position as a sizar would be one of continual annoyance.
Brogten, with an explosion of oaths; "I'll pay you and your sizar friend there for this, depend upon it.
On May 1st Mr Dobree, the head lecturer, sent for me to say that he appointed me head-lecturer's Sizar for the next year.
Trinity College; and was examined, and my certificate duly sent to Mr Hustler; and I was entered on Mr Hustler's side as Sizar of Trinity College.
These two poor Sizar boys, one from the North and the other from the South--meeting probably for the first time in the College hall and sitting side by side--what careers the College opened to them!
A sizar was definitely attached to a Fellow or Fellow Commoner; he was not exactly a servant, but made himself generally useful.
A sizar was definitely attached to a Fellow or Fellow Commoner, and in return for duties of a somewhat menial character passed through his College course on reduced terms.
The sizar of fifty years ago used to wait on the fellows at dinner and dine off the broken victuals, reinforced by fresh vegetables and pudding.
At Clare (1359) thesizar was regularly recognised.
I was a sizar at a fashionable school, a condition never premeditated.
Among acquaintances which the young sizar of Jesus might have more profitably made at Cambridge, but did not, was that of a student destined, like himself, to leave behind him a name famous in English letters.
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