Definition of Hectically

1. Adverb. In a frenzied manner. "We rehearsed frenziedly the last few days before the premiere"

Exact synonyms: Frenziedly
Partainyms: Frenzied, Hectic

Definition of Hectically

1. Adverb. In a hectic manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hectically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hectically

heckling
hecklings
hecks
heckuva
heckuva job
hect-
hectagon
hectagons
hectarage
hectarages
hectare
hectares
hectic
hectic flush
hectical
hectically (current term)
hectick
hecticly
hecticness
hectics
hectivities
hectivity
hecto-
hectoamp
hectoampere
hectoamperes
hectoamps
hectobecquerel
hectocotyli
hectocotylized

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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