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单词 jaundiced
释义 jaundiced, a.|ˈdʒɔːn-, ˈdʒɑːndɪst|
[f. jaundice n. + -ed2.]
1. Affected with jaundice; coloured yellow.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. iii. ii, Jaundised eies seeme to see all objects yellow, blood-shoten, red.1709Pope Ess. Crit. ii. 359 All looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 60 [I have] seen the bone of the tooth tinged with bile like the other bones in persons deeply jaundiced.1845Budd Dis. Liver 379 It sometimes happens that the cornea, or the humors of the eye, become jaundiced, and all objects appear yellow. The notion..formerly prevailed that this is generally the case..but it happens, on the contrary, very rarely.1883Times 27 Aug. 3/6 He is beginning to look better, though still jaundiced and aged.
2. Yellow-coloured.
1640Brome Antipodes v. x. liv, My husband presents jealousie in the black and yellow jaundi[c]ed sute there.1838Lytton Alice vii. iii, A comely matron.. in a jaundiced satinet gown.1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps ii. §16. 44 The barred windows with jaundiced borders and dead ground square panes.
3. fig. In reference to the yellow appearance and (reputed) yellow vision of jaundiced people; coloured or disordered by envy, jealousy, spleen, etc.
1699Garth Dispens. vi. 244 Here jealousy with jaundic'd look appears.1787Bentham Def. Usury xiii. 151 The fact is too manifest for the most jaundiced eye to escape seeing it.1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames xi. 310 Reason loses her faculties..the mind becomes jaundiced.1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) II. 149 He was naturally querulous and jaundiced in his views.1882Mrs. Oliphant Lit. Hist. Eng. I. 21 [Here] he was again miserable enough, to take his own jaundiced account of it.
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