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SIZE

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 165 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SIZE , a general
term
  for bulk or quantity; also an agglutinant consisting of undried glue. The two words, though they are so widely
separate
  in meaning, are by
etymology
  the same. " Size" (Lat. assidere, to sit down to) is a shortened form of "
assize
 ," through the
French
  and Italian respectively. The 0. Fr. assis, assise, and Eng. "
assize
 ," meant a sitting of a deliberative or other
body
 ; hence decree,
ordinance
  of such a
body
 , specifically of such as regulated weights,
measures
 , prices; thus it came to mean a standard of measure price, quantity thus fixed, and so merely quantity or measure, in which sense it remains in the shortened form " size." In the sense of an agglutinant, " size" is an adaptation of Ital. sisa, a shortened form of assisa (Lat. assidere), and seems to have meant by derivation " that which painters use to make the
colours
  sit well or suitably."


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