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On these objects he must have expended immense sums, 
yet at his death he left five millions of crowns in the castle 
of St. Angelo, with an injunction to his successor, that 
they should be expended only for the service of the church, 
against Turks and heretics, or to relieve the people in times 
of famine and pestilence. For the supply of the great ex¬ 
penditure of his reign, and the accumulation of the sums 
left behind him, he must have had recourse to a system of 
heavy taxation, although he managed his finances with 
great economy. He was not free from the papal vice of 
nepotism. Though never ashamed of the meanness of his 
origin, which could not be concealed, he was determined to 
leave his family great. He sent for a sister, the widow of 
a poor countryman, and instantly gave her the rank of a 
princess, with a suitable maintenance; and he raised one of 
her grandsons to the cardinalate, with a very large revenue. 
He was equally liberal to his other relations. He fixed the 
number of cardinals to seventy, a number which has been 
adhered to by his successors; and he decreed, that four at 
least of the number should be doctors of divinity, chosen 
from the religious orders. He is said to have been a decided 
enemy to the Jesuits, and was indignant that they should as¬ 
sume a name that implied, that their founder was the meek 
and benevolent Jesus; hence he proposed that they should 
change the name of their order to that of Ignatians. This 
celebrated pontiff died in August, 1590, having reigned 
five years and four months. The news of his death was 
received with every demonstration of joy at Rome, where 
his government had been oppressive and tyrannical; but the 
vigour of his administration, and the mighty works which he 
effected, have thrown a splendour about his name, and gave 
him rank among the distinguished characters of the age. 
In the year 1590, a new Latin version of the Bible 
was made and printed by his order, of which a corrected 
edition was given in 1590, by Clement VIII. 
Sl'XTY. adj. [pxtig, Saxon.] Six times ten—When the 
boats were come within sixty yards of the pillar, they found 
themselves all bound, and could go no farther. Bacon. 
SI'ZABLE, adj. Of considerable bulk. See Sizeable. 
—The whole was drawn out, and digested into a sizable 
volume. Hurd. 
SIZALISCA, a small river in the north of Greece, in Li- 
vidia, which falls into the gulf of Salona. 
SIZE, s. [perhaps rather rise, from incisa, Lat. or from 
assize, French.] Bulk ; quantity of superficies; compara¬ 
tive magnitude.—If any decayed ship be new made, it is 
more fit to make her a size less than bigger. Ralegh .— 
Objects near our view are thought greater than those of a 
larger size, that are more remote. Locke. [Assise, old Fr.] 
A settled quantity. In the following passage it seems to sig¬ 
nify the allowance of the table: whence they say a sizer at 
Cambridge. 
‘Tis not in thee 
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train, 
To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes. 
And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt 
Against my coining in. Shakspeare. 
Figurative bulk; condition.-—This agrees too in the con¬ 
tempt of men of a less size and quality. L'Estrange —[Sira 
I tab] Any viscous or glutinous substance. 
To SIZE, v. a. To swell; to increase the bulk of. 
Can you confess to your penurious uncle, 
In his full face of love, to be so strict 
A niggard to your commons, that you’re fain 
To size your belly out with shoulder fees ? Beaum. and FI. 
To adjust, or arrange according to size. 
Two troops so match’d were never to be found. 
Such bodies built for strength of equal age. 
In stature siz'd. Dry den. 
To settle; to fix.—There was a statute for dispersing the 
standard of the exchequer throughout England ; thereby to 
size weights and measures. Bacon. —To cover with gluti¬ 
nous matter; to besmear with size.—When we treat of sisin » 
and stiffening. Sir. W. Petty. 
SI'ZED, adj. Having a particular magnitude. 
What my love is, proof hath made you know, 
And as my love is siz'd, my fear is so. Shakspeare. 
SI'ZEABLE, adj. Reasonably bulky; of just propor¬ 
tion to others.—He should be purged, sweated, vomited, and 
starved, till he come to a sizeable bulk. Arbuthnot. 
SJZELAND, a village of England, in Norfolk; 5 miles 
from Bungay. 
SI'ZER, or Servitor, s. A certain rank of students in 
the university of Cambridge. See Servitor. 
They make a scramble for degree: 
Masters of all sorts and of all ages: 
Keepers, sub -sisers, lackeys, pages. Bp. Corbet. 
SI'ZERS, s. The old word for scissars. 
A buttrice and pincers, a hammer and naile, 
An apron and sizers for head and for taile. Tusser. 
SI'ZINESS, s. Glutinousness; viscosity.—In rheuma¬ 
tisms, the sizincss passes off thick contents in the urine, or 
glutinous sweats. Flayer. 
S1ZUN, a small town in the north-west of France, de¬ 
partment of Finisterre, containing 2900 inhabitants; 6 miles 
south-east of Landerneau. 
Sf'ZY, adj. Viscous; glutinous.—The blood is sizy, the 
alkalescent salts in the serum producing coriaceous concre¬ 
tions. Arbuthnot. 
SKADALS, Indians of North America, on Cataract river, 
north of Colombia. Number 200. 
SKA'DDLE, s. [pceaSnqje, Saxon; scath is harm, 
thence scathle, scaddle. ] Hurt; damage. 
SKA'DDLE, adj. Mischievous; ravenous. In Kent, 
spoken of dogs that are apt to steal; in the north, of young 
horses that fly out. 
SKA'DDONS, s. The embryos of bees. Bailey 
SKAGEN, or Scagen, a small town of Denmark, in 
Jutland, bishopric of Aalborg, on the Cattegat. It has a 
harbour and some fisheries. Population only 900; 18 miles 
north of Fladstrand. Lat. 57. 46. N. long. 10. 33. E. 
SKAGEN, a cape on the north coast of North Jutland, 
in long. 10. 31. E. lat. 57. 46. N. From this cape the ex¬ 
tensive sand bank called Skagen-rack, the reef or bank of 
Skagen, extends to a great distance into the sea. To enable 
ships to avoid it, a light-house, 64 feet high, was erected 
in 1751. The bank is frequented as a fishing station. 
SKAGGIE, a small river of Scotland, in Perthshire, 
which joins the Erne near Crieff. 
SKAIN, or Skein, s. [escaigne, Fr.] A knot of thread 
or silk wound and doubled.—Why art thou then exasperate, 
thou idle immaterial skein of sley’d silk, thou tassel of a 
prodigal’s purse? Shakspeare. 
SKANDA, in Hindoo Mythology, is a name of Kartikya, 
commander of the celestial armies. He is a reputed son of 
Siva, and his history and exploits fill many volumes of 
Eastern poetry, translated into a variety of languages from 
the Sanscrit. 
SKAI'NSMATE, s. [etymology unknown.] A messmate] 
a companion. 
Scurvy knave, I am none of his flirt gills; 
I am none of his skainmates. Shakspeare. 
SKAI.E, a small island on the west coast of Scotland, in 
Loch Fine. Lat. 55. 54. N. long 5. 23. W. 
SKALHOLT, or Reinicinrik, a small trading town, or 
rather village of Iceland, on the river Huikaa, formerly the 
residence of the bishop of the southern part of the island. 
It has a cathedral, and in the neighbourhood are the fa¬ 
mous hot springs called Geysers. Lat. 64. N. long. 16. W. 
SKALINGSFEL1?, a mountain in one of the Faroe 
islands, which rises to the height of 2100 feet, and is the 
highest of the whole group. 
SKALITZ, or Skakolcza, a small town in the north¬ 
west of Hungary, on a branch of the Morava, and the bor¬ 
ders of Moravia ; 48 miles north of Presburg. It stands on 
a rock, 
