adv. [ME. bit(t)erliche, -like, OE. biterlíce, f. biter, BITTER a. + -líce, -liche, -LY2.] In a bitter manner; with bitterness. (See the senses of BITTER a.)
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxvi. 75. Petrus … eode ut, and weop biterlice [v.r. bytyrlice].
c. 1200. Ormin, 9726. Forrþi toc Johan wiþþ hemm Full bitterrliȝ to mælenn.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 3896. Hem cam wirm-kin among, ðat hem wel bitterlike stong.
c. 1275. Serving Christ, 56, in O. E. Misc., 92. Hwo ysayh euer blisse byterluker ibouht.
c. 1400. Gamelyn, 198. And bigan bitterly his hondes for to wrynge.
c. 1440. Bone Flor., 1628. A scharpe knyfe … That bytterly wolde byte.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., I. iv. 7. The Northeast wind Which then grew bitterly against our face.
1611. Bible, Ruth i. 20. For the Almightie hath dealt very bitterly with me.
1799. Addison, Tatler, No. 152, ¶ 12. Achilles is not more bitterly lamented among us than you.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xlv. (1862), IV. 94. Exiles … bitterly hostile to Athens.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), I. iii. 265. He complained bitterly of the Italians.
1865. Trollope, Belton Est., xxii. 263. It came on to rain bitterly,—a cold piercing February rain.
