cize

Obsolete form of size (“bulk; largeness”).

Noun

  1. Obsolete form of size (“bulk; largeness”).
    • 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. - 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia: or Some...
    • 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 ; […] - 1677,...
    • 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. -...