Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a hectic manner; constitutionally; consumptively.

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  • adverb In a hectic manner.

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  • adverb in a frenzied manner

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Examples

  • "Then you do really think," hectically, "that if I take this medicine," mechanically reaching out for it, "I shall regain my health?"

    The Confidence-Man 1857

  • "Then you do really think," hectically, "that if I take this medicine," mechanically reaching out for it, "I shall regain my health?"

    The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

  • The parcel leans against a wall hectically Blu-tacked with Julian's drawings: from potato men sprouting arms and legs "My Mummy", to skyscrapers and towers and a not bad charcoal sketch of Raffael, their old alsatian, tattered but surviving.

    Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell 2011

  • Doug of course sees the writing on the wall -- what with Jeffrey Deitch hectically preparing a survey of street art for MOCA's Geffen wing for 2011, a whole lot of recent high art history is about to be erased from the canon to make room for what has been going on outside the museum walls for the past two or thee decades.

    Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010

  • The managerial carousel at St James 'Park has whizzed round so hectically in recent years that the club's owners might have been forgiven for examining their history and wondering if they might not do better to revert to getting the team picked and run by a selection committee.

    Newcastle United must do the right thing with Chris Hughton Richard Williams 2010

  • I think mainly in the realm of film, if something is too hectically edited.

    "If there really was a God here, he'd have raised a hand by now." thingunderthest 2010

  • Doug of course sees the writing on the wall -- what with Jeffrey Deitch hectically preparing a survey of street art for MOCA's Geffen wing for 2011, a whole lot of recent high art history is about to be erased from the canon to make room for what has been going on outside the museum walls for the past two or thee decades.

    Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010

  • Doug of course sees the writing on the wall -- what with Jeffrey Deitch hectically preparing a survey of street art for MOCA's Geffen wing for 2011, a whole lot of recent high art history is about to be erased from the canon to make room for what has been going on outside the museum walls for the past two or thee decades.

    Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010

  • Under the barrel roof of York Hall – a boxing venue – music by Underworld sends a metallic beat through the action, and giant videos flicker behind a hectically lit revolving stage.

    Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust Susannah Clapp 2010

  • Doug of course sees the writing on the wall -- what with Jeffrey Deitch hectically preparing a survey of street art for MOCA's Geffen wing for 2011, a whole lot of recent high art history is about to be erased from the canon to make room for what has been going on outside the museum walls for the past two or thee decades.

    Mat Gleason: LA Art World Gossip, October 2010 Mat Gleason 2010

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