Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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BURSARY, n. A scholarship, an endowment given to a student in a school or university, an exhibition. Gen.Sc.Sc. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest of Scotland 124:
All his Acquaintances are teazed with constant Solicitation to procure a Bursary for this hopeful Boy, because his Parents are not able to give such an Education.Sc. c.1733 A. Carlyle Autobiog. (1860) 62:
The bursaries given . . . to students in divinity to pass two winters in Glasgow College, and a third in some foreign university.Sc. 1933 E. S. Haldane Scotland of Our Fathers 167:
Scottish Universities were fortunately well supplied with “Bursaries,” — the “Bourses” of the French — many of them left by those who valued education but were none too well endowed themselves.Bnff. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 XVII. 433:
There are four bursaries at the King's college of Aberdeen for boys educated here [Mortlach].
