[f. BURSAR + -SHIP.] a. The office of a bursar. b. = BURSARY 3.
a. 1656. Hales, Gold. Rem., 276 (L.). Not the plotting of an headship … but the contriving of a bursership of twenty nobles a year.
1864. Athenæum, No. 1921. 244/3. A few bursarships.
1878. Lecky, England in 18th. C., II. v. 35. Burnet … showed his gratitude by founding eight bursarships in his will.
