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."
... Dormientis rete trahit The sleeping mans nett draweth. ijsdem e literis efficitur Tragedia et Comedia. Tragedies and Comedies are made of one Alphabett. Good wyne needes no bush. Heroum filij noxae. The sonnes of demy goddes demy men. Alia res sceptrum alia plectrum fere danides.[20] Abore dejecta quivis ligna colligit. The hasty bytch whelpes a blind lytter. Priscis credendum. We must beleeue the wytnesses are dead. Thear is no trusting a ... — Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
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