Sizar, the name of an order of students at Cambridge and Dublin universities, so called from the allowance of victuals (size) made to them from the college buttery. Duties of a somewhat menial kind, such as waiting upon the fellows at table, were originally required of the sizers, but these have long since gone into disuse. At Oxford there was formerly a somewhat similar order of students denominated Servitors.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 481
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