单词 | acrimonious |
释义 | acrimoniousadj. 1. = acrid adj. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] > bitter baskc1175 to do amerec1400 fell?c1425 gallyc1530 rhubarba1586 bitterish1605 acrimonious1617 acrid1633 rodent1633 absinthiana1635 gallish1648 acroamare1657 absinthiala1857 absinthine1862 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 208 If it proceed of an acrimonious fretting humor, etc. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 336 Artificiall copperose..is a rough and acrimonious kinde of salt. View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 63 A sharp and acrimonious vapour that strikes our nostrils. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 298 All Substances that abound with an acrimonious Salt and volatile Oil, are hurtful. 1766 J. Bartram Let. 18 Dec. (1992) 678 I have been subject..to grievous sour acrimonious acid humours which is called wind & heart burnings for which I took chalk which generaly stoped it imediately. 1813 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 5) §19 328 The sap is very (even dangerously) acrimonious. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. iv. v. §4 244 Natural substances which possessed strong and acrimonious properties. 2007 Z. Lai et al. in F. M. Ching Chinese Herbal Drug Res. Trends v. 150 It has a bitter and acrimonious taste and is also nasally stimulative. 2. Esp. of speech or a debate: bitter and angry in tone or manner; bitter-tempered.See note at acrid adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [adjective] > of speech or speaker stinginga1529 tart1601 tart-tongued1602 acrimonious1651 acerb1822 1651 H. Parker Scotlands Holy War 73 To argue against such expedients in this case..must needs savour of a spirit too litigious, and acrimonious. 1703 in W. Fuller Mr. William Fuller's Trip to Bridewell Bookseller To Rdr. Often fling out a Sentence that has been thought too acrimonious and bitter, for a Man under his Circumstances. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 69 Malignity thus acrimonious. 1798 W. Belsham Hist. Great Brit. II. xi. 396 The thanks of the House were nevertheless immediately voted him; yet not without exciting the secret and acrimonious resentment of the King's friends, or Prerogative party. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. i. 8 Engaged in a furious and acrimonious contest. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism §1. 2 If..his feelings are petulant and acrimonious. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 565 Only a single acrimonious expression escaped him. 1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) I. i. 54 Political hostility had been embittered by the most acrimonious disputes. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror 45 I think..that, as the conversation seems to be becoming a little acrimonious, it would be best if I took Horace for a stroll in the grounds. 1964 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens (ed. 2) i. 17 A quite acrimonious correspondence in which the Winter Heliotrope was reviled by one whose garden it had usurped and praised with equal vigour by an admirer. 1997 G. Williams Diamond Geezers xv. 98 Ron had read in the local rag about Goodge's acrimonious divorce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1617 |
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