PENSIONER, in the university of Cambridge and in that of Dublin, has a very peculiar meaning; for those students, either under-graduates or bachelors of arts, are called pensioners who live wholly at their own expence, and who receive no emolument whatever from the college of which they are members. They are divided into two kinds, the greater and the less; the former of which are generally called fellow-commoners, because they eat with the fellows of their college; the latter are always called pensioners, and eat with the scholars, who are those students of the college, either under-graduates or bachelors who are upon the foundation, who receive emoluments from the society, and who are capable of being elected fellows. See SERVITOR and SIZAR.