adv. [f. ACRID a. + -LY2.] In an acrid manner; with sharp or irritating bitterness: a. to the taste or bodily senses.

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1793.  Abernethy, in Phil. Trans., LXXXIII. 61. Not so acridly or nauseously bitter as common bile.

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  b.  to the feelings of others.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. VII. i. 340. Complimentary harangues, of which, as Loustalot acridly calculates, ‘upwards of two thousand have been delivered within the last month.’

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