a. [f. JAUNDICE sb. + -ED2.]
1. Affected with jaundice; colored yellow.
1640. Bp. Hall, Episc., III. ii. Jaundised eies seeme to see all objects yellow, blood-shoten, red.
1709. Pope, Ess. Crit., II. 359. All looks yellow to the jaundic’d eye.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 60. [I have] seen the bone of the tooth tinged with bile like the other bones in persons deeply jaundiced.
1845. Budd, 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 [Bismarck] is beginning to look better, though still jaundiced and aged.
2. Yellow-colored.
1640. Brome, Antipodes, V. x. liv. My husband presents jealousie in the black and yellow jaundi[c]ed sute there.
1838. Lytton, Alice, VII. iii. A comely matron … in a jaundiced satinet gown.
1849. Ruskin, 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; colored or disordered by envy, jealousy, spleen, etc.
1699. Garth, Dispens., VI. 244. Here jealousy with jaundic’d look appears.
1787. Bentham, Def. Usury, xiii. 151. The fact is too manifest for the most jaundiced eye to escape seeing it.
1800. Colquhoun, Comm. Thames, xi. 310. Reason loses her faculties … the mind becomes jaundiced.
1837. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857), II. 149. He was naturally querulous and jaundiced in his views.
1882. Mrs. Oliphant, Lit. Hist. Eng., I. 21. [Here] he was again miserable enough, to take his own jaundiced account of it.
