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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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"Vitriolic" Quotes from Famous Books

... the scene—the two old men toiling with pathetic earnestness over the task of preparing that letter; here and there, the words only partially deleted by lines run across them, were evidences that in his flustration under the master's vitriolic complaints, old Dick had confused comment with dictated matter—and had included comment in his unthinking haste to get everything down. Three times a "Dam your pelt" had been written and ...

— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

... "Union." His editor had gone off to San Francisco too, and Laird was trying his hand at editing. I woke up Mr. Laird with some courtesies of the kind that were fashionable among newspaper editors in that region, and he came back at me the next day in a most vitriolic way. He was hurt by something I had said about him—some little thing—I don't remember what it was now—probably called him a horse-thief, or one of those little phrases customarily used to describe another editor. They were no doubt just, and ...

— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain

... interest: his choice was almost perfect. Every soul in Lost Chief was packed into the log chapel long before the services began—every soul, that is, but Inez. Mr. Fowler never had been more eloquent and never, probably, had preached to a more deeply interested congregation. His sermon was a vitriolic arraignment, thinly disguised by ...

— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie

... weakest acids in his first trials, but he should be shown that the effects are similar, whatever acids we employ; only the colour will be darker when we make use of the strong, than when we use the weak acids. By degrees the pupil should be accustomed to employ the strong acids; such as the vitriolic, the nitric, and the muriatic, which three are called fossil acids, to distinguish them from the vegetable, or weaker acids. We may be permitted to advise the young chemist to acquire the habit of wiping the neck of the vessel out of which he pours any strong ...

— Practical Education, Volume II • Maria Edgeworth

... Sulphuret: A combination of an alkaline earth or metal with sulphur, as Sulphuret of iron, a combination of iron and sulphur. Sulphuric acid: Oil of vitriol, vitriolic acid. ...

— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... days to come may marvel as I do now that two score issues of a provincial paper should consistently contain such a freight of imperishable literature, revealing a learning positively prodigious, a style that flows with a sonorous majesty and crashes with a vitriolic and destroying power, a lavish richness in figurative language, a beauty of Aeolian harps, of sapphire seas, of the flushed and ardent splendor ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

Words linked to "Vitriolic" : sulfurous, virulent, acerb, acrid, blistering, acid, sulphurous, bitter, acerbic, vitriol, corrosive, mordant, unpleasant, caustic, destructive, erosive