ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Blanched, pallid, colorless. Also fig.

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1799.  Sir H. Davy, in Beddoes, Contrib. to Phys. & Med. Knowledge, 186. The whiteness of etiolated vegetables is occasioned by the deficiency of light.

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1848.  C. Brontë, Jane Eyre (1857), 146. I … left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated arms.

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1852.  Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., II. xxii. 359. It is caoutchouc in a particular state, I may almost say an etiolated caoutchouc.

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1857–81.  O. W. Holmes, in Old Vol. of Life (1883), 60. This poor human weed, this dwarfed and etiolated soul.

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1866.  Reader, 15 Dec., 1005/3. Examples of the kind of etiolated theology.

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1879.  A. Mongredien, Free Trade & Eng. Comm. (ed. 4), 26. These industries … are for the most part sickly, nerveless, and etiolated.

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