sizy

American  

[sahy-zee] / ˈsaɪ zi /

adjective

Archaic.

sizier, siziest

1. thick; viscous.

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Other Word Forms

• siziness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of sizy

First recorded in 1680–90; size ² + -y ¹

Example Sentences

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sizy

In more than two hundred patients, male and female, who were let blood by venesection, there were only six, whose blood could be termed sizy.

From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John

To relieve the difficult respiration, about six ounces of blood were taken from one of them, which to my surprise was sizy, like inflamed blood: they had both palpitations or unequal pulsations of the heart.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

It must be observed, that Bleeding very much conduces to the Cure of obstinate Chronic Rheumatisms, must be repeated at proper intervals if necessary; the Blood in this Disease being generally very sizy.

From An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, called Aether. by Turner, Matthew

I remember the old gentleman used to complain that his constitution was an unhappy one from birth, attended with 'flaccid solids, sizy and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits.'

From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder

In more than two hundred patients, male and female, who were let blood by venesection, there were only six whose blood could be termed sizy.

From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John