Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes caused by deposition of bile salts in these tissues. It occurs as a symptom of various diseases, such as hepatitis, that affect the processing of bile.
  • noun A state or feeling of negativity or bitterness arising especially from envy or world-weariness.
  • transitive verb To affect with the discoloration of jaundice.
  • transitive verb To affect with the negativity or bitterness of jaundice. synonym: bias.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To affect with jaundice.
  • Hence To affect with prejudice or envy.
  • noun Same as grasserie.
  • noun In pathology, a morbid state characterized by the presence of bile-pigments in the blood, which gives rise to a yellow staining of the skin and the whites of the eyes and to a dark coloring of the urine.
  • noun Hence A state of feeling or emotion that colors the view or disorders the judgment, as jealousy, envy, and the like.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.
  • noun (Med.) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the fæces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood.
  • noun See Cyanopathy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the feces, constipation, queasiness, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood. Other causes include increased hemolysis and any liver disease. The discoloration is caused by accumulation of bilirubin in the body; bilirubin is normally excreted in bile to give feces their normal yellow-brown coloration.
  • verb transitive To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a rough and bitter manner
  • verb distort adversely
  • verb affect with, or as if with, jaundice
  • noun yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Old French jaunice, yellowness, jaundice, from jaune, jalne, yellow, from Latin galbinus, yellowish.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune ("yellow") + -isse ("-ice, '-ness'"). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus ("yellowish"), from galbus ("yellow").

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  • See also Jaundice people.

    September 2, 2008

  • "But the weary process of reform at the UN has left many jaundiced" -- I find it interesting jaundice is used in this sense

    February 9, 2009