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icˈterical, a. [f. as prec. + -al1.] = prec. A. 1.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Ad §12. 51 Our under⁓standings if a crime be lodged in the will, being like ictericall eyes, transmitting the Species to the Soule with..colours of their own framing. 1697Evelyn Numism. ix. 302 Icterical Persons. 1749Phil. Trans. XLVI. 207 Ascitical and icterical Symptoms. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 30 A tedious icterical marasmus. b. transf. Tinged with yellow.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. vii. 110 His Diamond was of no spirituous and sparkling Water..the Don's was Ictericall, as if he had descended of the house of the Flavii, or that his Nurse had mix'd all his milke with Saffron. Hence icˈtericalness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |