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discoloured, -ored, ppl. a.|dɪsˈkʌləd|
[f. discolour v. + -ed1.]
1. Altered from the proper or natural colour; deprived of colour, pale; changed to a duller, dingier, or unnatural colour; stained, tarnished. (Also fig.)
1393Gower Conf. III. 339 The discoloured pale hewe Is now become a ruddy cheke. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 234 Who-so hath the visage litill and streyte, yelowe and discolourid, he is ful malicious. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 708 With lank and lean discolour'd cheek. 1732Pope Ep. Cobham 34 All Manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolour'd thro' our Passions shown. 1840F. D. Bennett Whaling Voy. II. 112 The green, or discoloured, water which marks the extent of D'Agulhas Bank.
b. Her. (See quot.)
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xii. (1611) 123 Foure footed beasts, whether they be borne proper, or discoloured (that is to say varying from their naturall colour).
†2. Without colours, divested of colours. Obs. nonce-use.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, Amo. And you have still in your hat the former colours. Mer. You lie, sir, I have none: I have pulled them out. I meant to play discoloured.
†3. Variously coloured; of different colours; variegated, particoloured. [from L. aiscolor, discolōrus.] Obs.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. iii. viii. in Ashm. (1652) 141 Wyth Flowers dyscoloryd bewtyosely to syght. 1595Spenser Epithal. 51 Diapred lyke the discolored mead. a1597Peele David & Bethsabe (1599) 8 May that sweet plain..Be still enamell'd with discolour'd flowers. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 307 Beautifyed with columns of discolour'd marble.
b. Differently coloured, the one from the other.
1651Cleveland Poems 25 Who askt the Banes 'twixt these discolour'd Mates?
Hence disˈcolouredness, the quality of being discoloured.
1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 77 Losing that discolouredness which appeared in the Fever. |