Sizar

One youngster, Sizar, who said he had come from Iraq to Athens three years ago, yelled joyously: It is mad.

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I had been entered a Sizar, but as the list of Foundation Sizars was full, my dinners in Hall were paid for.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

In an accompt of sums 'geven to poor schollers of dyvers gramare scholles' we find Xs. given, April 28, 1569, to 'Edmond Spensore Scholler of the Merchante Tayler Scholl;' and the identification is established by the occasion being described as 'his gowinge to Penbrocke Hall in Chambridge,' for we know that the future poet was admitted a Sizar of Pembroke

A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875

College in Dublin and expects to bate them all there, out and out: he's first to make something they call a seizure; (* Sizar) and, afther making that good he's to be a counsellor.

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

“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.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896