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hectically, adv. [f. as prec.] a. In the sense of hectic a. 1. b. With feverish activity. colloq.
1761Johnson Ascham Wks. IV. 635 He was for some years hectically feverish. 1908Daily Chron. 18 May 3/5 So many pictures in the Salons look as if they had been painted hectically a month before the exhibitions opened. 1972Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 11 A hectically social couple of my acquaintance. |