A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
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A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. (Written also demi) "He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a term by which that society denominates those elsewhere called "scholars," young men who partake of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their order to vacant fellowships."
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