acrimonious

[In Fr. acrimonieux, fr. Lat. a crim on i a = sharpne , pungency.] Sharp, pungent, biting. [ACRIMONY.] 1. Lit. Of material substances. "If gall cannot be rendered acrimonious and bitter of itself, then whatever acrimony or amaritude redounds in it must be from the admixture of melancholy."-Harvey: On Consumption. 2. Fig .: Of& person; of the mind, temper, or of language. "Even his mo acrimonious enemies feared him at least as much as they hated him."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xv. a price of high spirit and acrimonious temper."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxii. "They had long been in the habit of recounting in acrimonious language all that they had suffered at the hand of the Pur'an in the day of his power."Macaulay: Hist . Eng , ch. viii. ắc-ri-mō-ni-ous-ly, adv. ACRIMONIOUS.] In an acrimonious manner, sharply, pungently.