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Definition of Hectically
1. Adverb. In a frenzied manner. "We rehearsed frenziedly the last few days before the premiere"
Definition of Hectically
1. Adverb. In a hectic manner. ¹
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Definition of Hectically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hectically
Literary usage of Hectically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"He was for some years hectically feverish ; and, though he found some alleviation
of his distemper, never obtained a perfect recovery of his health. ..."
2. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... as in Burton; mystical and sensuous, as in Donne; hectically religious, as in
Crashaw; meditatively so, as in Vaughan. In Browne it is, as melancholy, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... applied to that kind of fever which is slow and continual, and ends in a
consumption ; troubled with a morbid heat. Hectically, (hek'-te-kal-le) ad. ..."
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