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icteric, a. and n.|ɪkˈtɛrɪk|
[ad. L. ictericus, a. Gr. ἰκτερικός jaundiced, f. ἴκτερος (see icterus). Cf. F. icterique (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A. adj.
1. Belonging to, of the nature of, or affected with jaundice; jaundiced. (Sometimes referring to the yellow tint of the skin in that disease, or to the jaundiced eyes which see all things yellow.)
a1600J. Melvill Diary (1842) 14 He died..anno 1575 in an icterik fevar. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 96 That sort of Cœliack passion, which I think may be called an Icterick Loosness. 1799M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Childr. (ed. 4) I. 29 note, An infant..whose finger nails were..of as deep a yellow as in any icteric adult. 1804A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 141 Icteric vision. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 334 note, The icteric tint of the skin seems to be merely the result of an effusion of blood.
b. Used for the cure of jaundice.
1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 14 Icteric Ale..cureth..Icteric Persons.
2. icteric oriole: a North American bird (Icterus vulgaris), having black and yellow plumage, with white spots on the wings; also called troopial.
1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 114 The Icteric Oriole is, in size, somewhat smaller than a blackbird. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. 244 The icteric oriole is kept by the Americans in their houses for the sake of clearing them of insects.
B. n.
1. A person affected with jaundice.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (Vol. I.) 2 They resemble the Icterickes, who hauing the Iaundesse in their Eyes, see nothing which seemeth not vnto them to carry the same colour. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. ix. 314 When an Icterick was let bloud, it appeared all yellow.
2. A medicine for the cure of jaundice.
1727Swift Gulliver iii. vi, Administer to each of them lenitives..laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics. |
