cize
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See also: čiže
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cize
- Obsolete form of size (“bulk; largeness”).
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon., Royal Society, page 107:
- Now, though they were a little bigger, yet did they keep the exact figure and order of the pores of Coals and of rotten Wood, which laſt alſo were much of the ſame cize.
- 1677, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England, page 133:
- 161. Since then it ſeems to be manifeſt, that the cize of the bone has been ſcarce alter'd in its petrification: It remains, that it muſt have belong'd to ſome greater Animal than either an Ox or Horſe ; […]
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra: Or a Discourse of the Universe as it is the Creature and Kingdom of God, W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page 13:
- 15. Now if there be no Motion which can alter the Principles of Bodies, that is, reduce them to fome other Cize or Figure ; then is there none, of it ſelf ſufficient to give them the Cize and Figure which they have.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)