单词 | jaundiced |
释义 | jaundicedadj. 1. Affected with jaundice; coloured yellow. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > discoloured wanc700 blaec1325 bluec1390 swarta1400 livid?a1425 pinch-spotteda1616 jaundiced1640 blue in the face1792 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] yelloweOE blaykec1400 jaune1430 flawc1450 jaundiced1640 flaxed1652 flave1657 flavous1666 blake1691 gambogian1837 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [adjective] > jaundice icteritious1609 icterica1614 jaundiced1640 icterical1649 cholaemic1876 icterogenetic1897 icterogenic1903 the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [adjective] invidious1668 jaundiced1711 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie iii. ii Jaundised eies seeme to see all objects yellow, blood-shoten, red. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 32 All looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye. 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 60 [I have] seen the bone of the tooth tinged with bile like the other bones in persons deeply jaundiced. 1845 G. Budd On 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. 1883 Times 27 Aug. 3/6 He is beginning to look better, though still jaundiced and aged. 2. Yellow-coloured. ΚΠ 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. L4 My husband presents jealousie in the black and yellow jaundied [read jaundiced] sute there. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. vii. iii. 318 A comely matron..in a jaundiced satinet gown. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 44 The barred windows with jaundiced borders and dead ground square panes. 3. figurative. In reference to the yellow appearance and (reputed) yellow vision of jaundiced people; coloured or disordered by envy, jealousy, spleen, etc. ΚΠ 1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury xiii. 151 The fact is too manifest for the most jaundiced eye to escape seeing it. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xi. 310 Reason loses her faculties..the mind becomes jaundiced. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. II. 195 He was naturally querulous and jaundiced in his views. 1882 M. Oliphant Lit. Hist. Eng. I. 21 [Here] he was again miserable enough, to take his own jaundiced account of it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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