1854 C. Reade in 35 604 Casenower, the science-bitten, had read all the books chemists wrote on agriculture.
1904 H. L. Wilson xix. 240 We already know how to reach the heathen, the unbookish, the unthinking—but how reach the educated—the science-bitten ?
1987 C. Zaleski iii. vi. 100 Proof of life after death has not always been the purpose of such literature; that particular interest is characteristic of our own doubt-ridden and science-bitten culture.