With a keen edge or a fine point.

Severely; rigorously; roughly. They are to be more sharply chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser.

Keenly; acutely; vigorously; as the mind and memory sharply exercised.

Violently; vehemently. At the arrival of English embassadors, the soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward.

With keen perception; exactly; minutely .& You contract your eye, when you would see sharply. Bacon.

Acutely; wittily; with nice discernment.