Definition of "jaundice"

jaundice

/ˈd͡ʒɔndɪs/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural jaundices
1. (pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine.
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  Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies / By being peeuiſh?
  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i], page 163
  But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!
  1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice”, in Poems & poèmes
  In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).
  2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO, page 215
  Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?
  2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books, page 8
2. (figurative) A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy.
  Quotations
  No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]
  1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], page 48
verb
third-person singular simple present jaundices, present participle jaundicing, simple past and past participle jaundiced
1. (transitive) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.
  Quotations
  The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.
  1850, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel

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