Obs. ? Errors for, or jocular alterations of, SUBSIZAR, -SIZARSHIP.
1589. [? Nashe], Almond for Parrat, Wks. 1905, III. 366. I am to tel you how laudibly he behaued himselfe in Peterhouse, during the time of his subsistership.
1592. Chettle, Kind-harts Dr. (1841), 45. You that was wont, like a subsister, in a gown of rugge, rent on the left shoulder, to sit singing the counter-tenor by the cage in Southwarke.
