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/vˌɪtriˈɑlɪk/ Listen

adjective

Vitriolic adj.

(Chem.) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol.

Biting, bitter or caustic; having or expressing strong and unpleasantly negative feelings; of speech or feelings; the vitriolic denunciations of opponents by partisan columnists.

Vitriolic acid (Old Chem.),

(a)

sulphuric acid. See Vitriol (b). (Colloq.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vitriolic" Quotes from Famous Books

... quietly begins the Professor; "far deeper perhaps than we imagine. Meanwhile, the question of questions were: What specially is a Miracle? To that Dutch King of Siam, an icicle had been a miracle; whoso had carried with him an air-pump, and vial of vitriolic ether, might have worked a miracle. To my Horse, again, who unhappily is still more unscientific, do not I work a miracle, and magical 'Open sesame!' every time I please to pay twopence, and open for him an impassable Schlagbaum, ...

— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle

... soap-suds, into the open again, a slip in the mud, and, forgetting, abrupt opening of the eyes—how wonderfully expressive and voluminous is our English tongue. Although I have heard a no more efficient flow of useful blasphemy than Duport's vitriolic patois. ...

— Norman Ten Hundred - A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry • A. Stanley Blicq

... the "Second English Satirist", or rather as dividing the palm of priority and excellence in English satire with Hall. The individual characteristics of the various leading Elizabethan satirists,—the vitriolic bitterness of Nash, the sententious profundity of Donne, the happy-go-lucky "slogging" of genial Dekker, the sledge-hammer blows of Jonson, the turgid malevolence of Chapman, and the stiletto-like thrusts of George Buchanan are worthy ...

— English Satires • Various

... Vitriolic acid, opium, steel, bark. Sponge bound on the part. Steel dissolved in spirit ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin