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De·my n.; pl. Demies
1. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
2. 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.\= --Johnson.