cize

See also: čiže

English

Noun

cize

1. 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.

References

• “cize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.