What is "sizars"

Usage examples of "sizars".

Both Dunster and Saltmarsh arrived here as miserable sizars with no more meat on their bones than a February cow.

Gilded popinjays who pretend to scholarship and whose only virtue is that they provided employment for impoverished sizars was the consensus reached last Michaelmas, was it not?

The only other juniors he had been introduced to were all sizars and thus would be working.

And, assuming he made some other friends amongst the new intake of pensioners and sizars, what about them?

Master and his fellowship to the lowest group of sizars with earnest and devout proposals to halt this effort.

I doubt whether we can say so much of the Sizars and Bible clerks at our universities.