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Definition of Sizars
1. sizar [n] - See also: sizar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sizars
Literary usage of Sizars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Town of Newark, New Jersey: From Its Settlement in 1666, to by Newark (N.J.) (1864)
"... of the sizars, if he will Abide in the Town and follow his Trade ; Provided
he pay his Shear to the purchase for what he hath, as others Have Done. ..."
2. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"The master's sizar, therefore, waited upon him for the sake of his commons,
etc., as the sub-sizar had done ; and the other sizars did the same office to ..."
3. Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century by Christopher Wordsworth (1874)
"Watson of Llandaff in the Anecdotes of his Life, written before 1814', says that
in his own time (at Trinity, in 1755) 'the sizars were not so respectfully ..."
4. The Grounds & Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion by John Eachard (1685)
"They took therefore. heretofore a very good Method to prevent sizars over-heating
their brains . ..."
5. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"Of Laws concerning the Profession of Teaching. Of the nature of the lay instruction
in the early Christian Schools. Origin of " sizars", or "Poor Scholars". ..."
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