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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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†BURSARSHIP, n. A scholarship.Sc. 1902 A. Lang Hist. of Scotland II. xxi.:
The Scots name is “bursarship,” not scholarship, and a bursar is not a bursar in the Oxford sense, but a Scholar.