demies

The "demies," who were offered nominations to the fellowships thus rendered vacant, supported their seniors, and, in their turn, too, were driven out; they had showed their contempt for James 'intruded fellows by "cocking their hats" at them, and by drinking confusion to the Pope.

The Charm of Oxford 1892

Besides the greatest of English essayists, there were among the new "demies," a future archbishop, a future bishop, and the high Tory, Henry Sacheverell, whose fiery but unbalanced eloquence overthrew the great Whig Ministry, which had been the patron of his college contemporary.

The Charm of Oxford 1892

I have been idle enough in my time, to make a computation of wits here, and do find we have three hundred performing poets and upwards, in and about this town, reckoning six score to the hundred, and allowing for demies, like pint bottles; including also the several denominations of imitators, translators, and familiar-letter-writers, &c.

A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet 1909

This attempt at a solid fiction is, with their permission, dedicated to the President, Fellows, and demies of St. Mary Magdalen College.

It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

Regular poems must have been owing to leisure, education, and the establishment of schools and aca - demies.

Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A. 1812

My failing fight grows oId becanfc Of all mine demies.

The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common ... 1668

The grammar schools in University towns had therefore originally no special importance, but many of the undergraduates who came up at thirteen or fourteen required some training such as William of Waynflete provided for his younger demies in connexion with the Grammar School which he attached to Magdalen, or such as Walter de Merton considered desirable when he ordained that there should be a Master of Grammar in his College to teach the poor boys, and that their seniors were to go to him in any difficulty without any false shame ( "absque rubore").

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

A bale of bard cinque deuces; a bale of flat cinque deuces; a bale of flat size aces; a bale of bard cater treys; a bale of flat cater treys; a bale of Fulhams; a bale of light graniers; a bale of gordes, with as many highmen and lowmen for passage; a bale of demies; a bale of long dice for even or odd; a bale of bristles; a bale of direct contraries, -- names of false dice.

The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2 1870

#fcburfe, and. not your imagination: re - ferye your rhetorical 'flights tor the - Ata J demies,. when you are to pronounce an Eulogium there -, but the dignity of th£

Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV (Ganganelli): To which are Prefixed, Anecdotes of His Life 1777

On whkh confideration it might well be concluded witji wha (the Author of Religia Medici wrSes on this Snbjed: The Alceran is a Book compofed unadvifedly ftufied with idle and ridiculous Errors in Philofophy; fuftained by apparent S (4icifms, Subterfuges of Ignorance, the decrying pfAca - demies, and the banifliing of all manner of Learning, upheld by Force more than Reafon, the Fortupe of their Arms be - ing their greateft Argument.

A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years ... 1698