bursary
(ˈbɜːsərɪ)
[ad. med.L. bursārius treasurer, bursāria treasurer's room; see bursar.]
† 1. ? = bursar 1. Obs.
| 1538 Leland Itin. III. 68 Certen Bursaries, Ministers and Choristes. |
2. A treasury; the bursar's room in a college, etc.
| 1695 Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Bursaria, The bursary, or place of receiving and paying money and rents by the bursarii, bursars, or officers of account in religious houses. 1732 De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. (1769) II. 244 In the Bursary [of New College, Oxford] is shewn the Crosier of the Founder. 1736 Neal Hist. Purit. III. 429 The Bursaries were emptied of the public money. |
3. (orig. in Scotland.) An endowment given to a student in a university or school, an exhibition. Also, in extended use, an endowment to persons other than students.
| 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scot. 124 To procure a Bursary for this hopeful Boy. 1800 A. Carlyle Autobiog. 62 The bursaries given..to students in divinity to pass two winters in Glasgow College, and a third in some foreign university. 1850 De Quincey in H. Page De Quincey (1877) II. xvii. 74 Such small ‘bursaries’ or ‘exhibitions,’ as the Scottish college system offers. 1907 Act 7 Edward VII c. 43 §11 The powers and duties of a local education authority..shall include a power to aid by scholarships or bursaries the instruction in public elementary schools of scholars from the age of twelve up to the limit of age fixed. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 863/1 Bursar..is also applied to the holder of ‘a bursary’..in England a scholarship or exhibition enabling a pupil of an elementary school to continue his education at a secondary school. 1943 Hansard (Canada) 1 Mar. 787/1 A third field to which the committee should give some consideration is that of providing federal bursaries and scholarships at both secondary school and university levels. 1955 Times 10 May 12/4 This bursary has been awarded to a playwright or producer in order to enable him to make a study of the theatre. |