hec´ti|cal|ly

hec´ti|cal|ly
hec|tic «HEHK tihk», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. very exciting; characterized by great excitement, activity, or confusion: »

hectic pleasures, a hectic romance, a man with a hectic past. The children had a hectic time getting to school the morning after the big snowstorm.

2. much excited: »

Hectic citizens crowd through ecclesiastical doors to a club called Gold Street (Esquire).

3. flushed: »

leaves…pale and hectic red (Shelley).

4. feverish.
5. showing the signs of a wasted condition of the body, as caused by tuberculosis or the like; consumptive.
–n.
1. any flush or fever: »

A hectic of a moment pass'd across his cheek (Laurence Sterne).

2. a) a flush. b) a fever. c) a person having a hectic fever; a consumptive person.
[< Late Latin hecticus < Greek hektik habitual, consumptive (of a disease) < héxis habit < échein have, hold]
hec´ti|cal|ly, adverb.

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