['di:mai]
demos的复数

Demi \De*mi"\, n.
See {Demy}, n.

Demy \De*my"\, n.; pl. {Demies}. [See {Demi-}.]
1. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See
under {Paper}.

2. A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also
{demi}.]

He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a
term by which that society denominates those
elsewhere called ``scholars,'' young men who partake
of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their
order to vacant fellowships. --Johnson.