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ˈmiddle-sized, a.
[f. middle a. + size n. + -ed2.]
Of medium size, neither large nor small.
1632Brome Court Beggar ii. (1653) P 2, I thinke you able to maintaine your selfes midle-sis'd Gent. 1667Boyle in Phil. Trans. II. 582 We put it into a middle-sized Receiver. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §201 From the bigness of a pea to that of a middle-sized turnip. 1883F. M. Wallem Fish Supply Norway 30 (Fish. Exhib. Publ.) A middle-sized..stockfish. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 4 The middle-sized bronchi.
Hence middle-sizedness, the condition of being middle-sized; mediocrity.
1903G. Matheson Repr. Men of Bible 86 What is their mental average? It is not greatness, it is not smallness, it is not even middle-sizedness: it is shortcoming. |