subs. (Cambridge University).—A Simeonite, or member of the Evangelical section of the Church of England; a Low Churchman. The modern equivalent is PI-MAN. [The Rev. Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was 54 years Vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge]: GROSE (1785).
1826. W. W. TODD, The Sizar’s Table [C. WHIBLEY, ed. In Cap and Gown, 109].
| Some carnally given to women and wine, | |
| Some apostles of SIMEON all pure and divine. |
1851. BRISTED, Five Years in an English University, 39. While passing for a terribly hard-reading man, and a SIM of the straightest kind with the ‘empty bottles.’
