Hypertext Webster Gateway: "demi"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demi- \Dem"i-\ [F. demi-, fr. L. dimidius half; di- = dis- +
medius middle. See {Medium}, and cf. {Demy}, {Dimidiate}.]
A prefix, signifying half.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demi \De*mi"\, n.
See {Demy}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demy \De*my"\, n.; pl. {Demies}. [See {Demi-}.]
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.
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