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Hectic
Definitions
- 1 Very busy with activity and confusion. figuratively
"The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds"
- 2 Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin. obsolete
"hectic fever"
- 3 Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever. obsolete
"Ann had a hectic cough, and many unfavourable prognostics […]."
- 1 marked by intense agitation or emotion wordnet
- 1 A hectic fever. obsolete
"[…] Do it England, / For like the Hecticke in my blood he rages, / And thou muſt cure me: […]"
- 2 A flush like one produced by such a fever. obsolete
"The poor Franciscan made no reply: a hectic of a moment pass’d across his cheek, but could not tarry […]"
Etymology
From Middle English etik, ethik, from Old French etique, from Medieval Latin *hecticus, from Ancient Greek ἑκτικός (hektikós, “habitual, hectic, consumptive”), from ἕξις (héxis, “a state or habit of body or of mind, condition”), from ἔχειν (ékhein, “to have, hold, be in a certain state”).
From Middle English etik, ethik, from Old French etique, from Medieval Latin *hecticus, from Ancient Greek ἑκτικός (hektikós, “habitual, hectic, consumptive”), from ἕξις (héxis, “a state or habit of body or of mind, condition”), from ἔχειν (ékhein, “to have, hold, be in a certain state”).
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