| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Bible-Clerk A sizar of the Oxford university; a student who gets certain pecuniary advantages for reading the Bible aloud at chapel. The office is almost a sinecure now, but the emolument is given, in some colleges, to the sons of poor gentlemen, either as a free gift, or as the reward of merit tested by examination. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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