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† hective, a. Obs.
[Altered from hectic, or corresp. Fr., after adjs. in -ive, as costive.]
= hectic a.
1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. x. xxxi (1678) 261 An hective Fever [la fièvre hectique] easily follows upon these kinds of Wounds. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. ii. 55 Being guilty of no Greek, and being demanded why it was called an hective fever; because, saith he, of an hecking cough which ever attendeth that disease. 1709Steele Tatler No. 34 ⁋5 Of a very spare and hective Constitution. |