hectic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhɛktɪk/
hectic
- (obsolete) Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
- hectic fever; a hectic patient
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1
- She never complained, but sleep and appetite fled from her, a slow fever preyed on her veins, her colour was hectic, and she often wept in secret [...]
- Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
- The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
- French: agité
- German: hektisch
- Italian: febbrile, frenetico
- Portuguese: febril, frenético
- Russian: лихора́дочный
- Spanish: ajetreado, febril, agobiante, frenético
hectic (plural hectics)
- (obsolete) A hectic fever.
- circa 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 3,
- […] Do it, England;
- For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
- And thou must cure me.
- circa 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 3,
- (obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
- 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, Volume 1, p. 17,
- The poor Franciscan made no reply: a hectic of a moment pass’d across his cheek, but could not tarry […]
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.147:
- For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills […]
- 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, Volume 1, p. 17,
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