Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See
size .
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- noun obsolete
bulk ;largeness ;size
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Examples
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Latin music star Shakira comes out with a bunch of girls in exercise gear and leads the 6 p.m. salsa-cize class to her tune, "Loca."
Florence Henderson is out, Bristol survives on 'Dancing with the Stars' Lisa de Moraes 2010
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Viret thought these “atheists” greatly abused the liberty which the Reformation had given them to criti - cize idolatry and superstition.
DEISM ROGER L. EMERSON 1968
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Page 148 big ez either, which ours would pre-cize-ly be.
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_Cylinder_ K, or some other conveniently shap'd Tool, of what wideness shall be thought most proper for the cize of Glasses, about which it is to be imploy'd: As, for Object glasses, between twelve foot and an hundred foot long, the Ring may be about six inches over, or indeed somewhat more for those longer Glasses.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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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.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Plates be _thinner_ then such a determinate _cize_; for we alwayes find, that the very outmost Rim of these flaws is terminated in a white and colourless Ring.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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It is made up of an innumerable company of small bodies, not all of the same cize or shape, but for the most part, not much differing from a
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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But what if you didn't have to ditch your gas-guzzler to enviro-cize it?
Nashville Scene 2010
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She declined to criti-cize Sen. Harry Reid, R-Nev., who this week yanked an $85 billion bipartisan jobs bill and replaced it with a strip-ped-down $15 billion bill that focuses on a payroll tax deduction to stimulate hiring.
Yakima Herald-Republic Weekly News By Leah Beth Ward 2010
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Don’t settle for yoga-cize or the competitive “no pain, no gain” classes at the gym or high fashion studio.
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