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- adjective Obsolete form of
hectic . - noun Obsolete form of
hectic .
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Examples
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An early English writer on this valuable product spoke truly when he remarked: "All the American travellers have written such panegyricks, that I should degrade this royal liquor if I should offer any; yet several of these curious travellers and physicians do agree in this, that the cocoa has a wonderful faculty of quenching thirst, allaying hectick heats, of nourishing and fattening the body."
The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Brandon Head
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France would have been unconquerable, if Charles his order had been augmented and maintaind: but men in their small wisdome begin a thing, which then because it hath some favour of good, discovers not the poyson that lurkes thereunder, as I before said of the hectick feavers.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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The first 45mn werent too bad btu the road really became hectick and no 4x4 would ever be able to pass through some of the sections of this road.
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