[app. a back-formation from JAUNDICED.]
1. trans. To affect with jaundice; usually fig. To affect with envy or jealousy; to tinge the views or judgment of.
1791. Mrs. Radcliffe, Rom. Forest, v. Her perceptions were jaundiced by passion.
1867. O. W. Holmes, Guard. Angel, xxiv. (1891), 289. She … wanted to crush the young lady, and jaundice her mother, with a girl twice as brilliant.
2. To tinge with yellow, to make yellow.
1892. J. Ralph, in Harper’s Mag., June, 104/1. The sulphur weighted and jaundiced the atmosphere.
