2. Verb. (past participle of hector) ¹
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Definition of Hectored
1. hector [v] - See also: hector
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hectored
Literary usage of Hectored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. by Samuel Pepys, John Smith, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1854)
"... indeed, she did ;n to bring all his bastards to his closet-door, and hath
hectored him out of his wits. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1866)
"... they upon their own side of the House there fought the battle of details, who
saw the matter in a different and hectored and bullied as Minis- light, ..."
3. The History of New-Hampshire by Jeremy Belknap, John Farmer (1862)
"Hall and Thomas Wiggin, he refused to give summonses, but first (I suppose) must
inform somebody, I was sent for by the marshal, huffed and hectored ..."
4. The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c by Helen Charlotte Foxcroft (1898)
"This was corrupted into ' bulled ' I MSS. A and D); and ' palled ' (Eds. I.
and II.), which were corrected iu Ed. III. into ' hectored.' MS. ..."
5. Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society by New Hampshire Historical Society (1866)
"He refused to give summonses, but first (I suppose) must inform some body I was
sent for by the marshal, huffed and hectored strangely, threatened, &c.; ..."
6. Provincial and State Papers by New Hampshire (1867)
"He refused to give summonses, but first (I suppose) must inform some body I was
sent for by the marshal, huffed and hectored strangely, threatened, &c.; ..."
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