[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. In Scotland: An endowment given to a student in a university or school, an exhibition.
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.
