hecticadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈhɛktɪk/, U.S.

/ˈhɛktɪk/

Forms: α. Middle English etik(e, Middle English–1500s etyk(e, 1500s eticke, ethyke, hetique, 1600s hittique. β. 1600s hecticke, hectique, 1600s–1700s hectick, 1600s– hectic.

Etymology: < (through French) late Latin hecticus, < Greek ἑκτικός habitual, hectic, consumptive, < ἕξις habit, state of body or mind. The earlier forms etik, etc., were < Old French étique (13th cent. in Littré) = Italian etico, Spanish etico, Romanic forms < hecticus; the later agree with French hectique (Paré, 16th cent.).

A. adj.

a. Belonging to or symptomatic of the bodily condition or habit: applied to that kind of fever which accompanies consumption or other wasting diseases, and is attended with flushed cheeks and hot dry skin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > other fevers

slowc1300

hectic1398

remitting1583

altern1594

hectical1614

hective1642

remittent1670

imputrid1684

intercurrent1684

aestuous1708

angiotenic1799

anabatic1811

masked1833

hyperpyretic1876

hyperpyrexial1896

hyperpyrexic1897

tularaemic1954

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [adjective] > high temperature > affected with

hoteOE

pungent1817

hectic1819

hyperthermic1896

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. xxxv. 248 The feuer etyk hurtyth and greuyth the sadde membres.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 103 In consumyng agues which ar called hectice.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xlix. 71 Such as are fallen into Consumtions and Feuer Hetiques.

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Hecticke, inflaming the hart, and soundest parts of the bodie.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Ectique Thence is a feuer called Hecticke, when it hath possessed all parts of the bodie, without any alteration in it selfe.

1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) i. viii. 48 The Quartan, the Continual, the Hittique.

1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum Hectick..it is only joined to that kind of Fever which is slow and continual, and ending in a Consumption.

1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. iv. 45 Hectic fever is more or less remittent, but never wholly intermittent.

b. Belonging to or symptomatic of this fever.

ΚΠ

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 541 No hectique disposition upon the body so sapes away the strength thereof.

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. v. (R.) The hectick heate Of Oswald's blood doubled their pulses pace.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 131 All the Rose to one small Spot withdrew: They call'd it hectic; 'twas a fiery Flush.

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xiii. 326 This action on the lungs..oppresses them with a hectic cough.

1885 ‘E. Lyall’ In Golden Days I. x. 283 Like the hectic beauty of one dying of consumption.

c. Affected with hectic fever; consumptive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > other fevers > affected with

hectical1614

hectic1665

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 24 All of them in time..become paralitick and dye hectick.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 151 Thin, puny, yellow, hectic figures.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. iv. 58 A pretty, hectic girl of sixteen.

1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 54 Many young people with hectic cheeks.

2. figurative.

a. Wasting, consuming.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > [adjective] > wasting or consuming

hectic1613

1613 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (rev. ed.) iii. v. 495 All enioyings are not alike. There are some hecticke, faint and languishing ones.

b. With reference to the hectic flush.

ΚΠ

1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to West Wind i, in Prometheus Unbound 189 The leaves..Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red.

1826 F. D. Hemans Forest Sanctuary ii. xii Day's last hectic blush.

1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. iii. 99 Thrill with vehement and hectic feeling.

†3. In etymological sense: Habitual, constitutional. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective]

habitudinalc1380

ordinala1425

usantc1450

habituate1526

habited1605

habitual1611

solemn1616

habituary1627

hectic1641

practised1656

regular1786

familiar1920

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 51 That hectick disposition to evill, the sourse of all vice.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 5 He seemed naturally to affect a majestique carelesnesse, which was so hectique, so habitual in him as [etc.].

4. Stirring, exciting, disturbing; characterized by a state of feverish excitement or activity. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > characterized by or causing

commotive1605

nervous1775

jumpy1883

hectic1904

1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 210 Didn't I say we never met in pup-pup-puris naturalibus, if I may so put it, without a remarkably hectic day ahead of us?

1922 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. The hectic undulations of the mark.

1922 Westm. Gaz. 7 Nov. Those hectic inconsidered actions which kept the country in a state of crisis for some ten days.

1922 Daily Mail 21 Nov. 11 As additional excitements to the hectic finishes one horse was killed and the judge mistook the winner of the Leycester Nursery.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 117 Hectic show, an Air Force expression for flying very low.

1968 Daily Mirror 20 Aug. 9/2 Stretch bikini bottoms and loose towelling tops in hectic colours.

B. n. (elliptical use of the adjective.)

a. A hectic fever.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers

fever hectica1398

emitrichie1398

hectic1398

etisie1527

emphysode fever1547

frenzy-fever1613

purple fever1623

prunella1656

marcid fever1666

remittent1693

feveret1712

rheumatic fever1726

milk fever1739

stationary fever1742

febricula1746

milky fever1747

camp-disease1753

camp-fever1753

sun fever1765

recurrent fever1768

rose fever1782

tooth-fever1788

sensitive fever1794

forest-fever1799

white leg1801

hill-fever1804

Walcheren fever1810

Mediterranean fever1816

malignant1825

relapsing fever1828

rose cold1831

date fever1836

rose catarrh1845

Walcheren ague1847

mountain fever1849

mill fever1850

Malta fever1863

bilge-fever1867

Oroya fever1873

hyperpyrexia1875

famine-fever1876

East Coast fever1881

spirillum fevera1883

kala azar1883

black water1884

febricule1887

urine fever1888

undulant fever1896

rabbit fever1898

rat bite fever1910

Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911

sandfly fever1911

tularaemia1921

sodoku1926

brucellosis1930

Rift Valley fever1931

Zika1952

Lassa fever1970

Marburg1983

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) xvi. v It helpeþ tisik and etik.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 279 Or þe patient falle into etikis.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iii. f. 37^v He is in an eticke or a consumpcion.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. iii. 68 Like the Hectique in my blood he rages, And thou must cure me.

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours ii. 88 In them that have the consumption, the lungs especially are affected, and the whole body in hecticks.

1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 237 She had much hectic and sweating.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

c1430 J. Lydgate Æsop's Fab. iii. 26 in Herrig's Archiv LXXXV. 25 With suche false etykes many man is shent.

1647 Case Kingdom 2 This heat of Presbytery proved..an Hectique in the body Politique of Scotland.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 7 Wishing, that constant Hectick of a Fool.

1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 30 I have often had the fool's hectic of wishing about the unalterable.

2. A person affected with hectic fever; a consumptive person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > consumption > person

phthisica1398

phthisical1618

hectica1657

consumptive1666

pulmonic1733

phthinode1870

a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. ii. 126 The Hecticke has y^e Day To cease in, but drinks Marrow.

1687 T. Willis in P. Madan Phylosophical Ess. Waters Tunbridge 9 As for Hecticks, they are commonly of a fine texture of Body.

a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 151 The hectic, lull'd On Death's lean arm to rest.

3. A hectic flush; transferred a flush or heightened colour on the cheek; also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > with blushing

blushing1581

flushing1590

suffusion1700

flush1706

bloom1752

mantling1753

rouge1759

hectic1768

vermilion1787

smoking1862

mantle1897

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 17 A hectic of a moment pass'd across his cheek.

1847 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun (1853) xvi. 41 One man's cheek kindled with the hectic of sudden joy.

1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. III. xxxii. 193 Overhead the sky had fainted into a sickly hectic.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hectic
释义	hecticadj.n. Brit. /ˈhɛktɪk/, U.S. /ˈhɛktɪk/ Forms: α. Middle English etik(e, Middle English–1500s etyk(e, 1500s eticke, ethyke, hetique, 1600s hittique. β. 1600s hecticke, hectique, 1600s–1700s hectick, 1600s– hectic. Etymology: < (through French) late Latin hecticus, < Greek ἑκτικός habitual, hectic, consumptive, < ἕξις habit, state of body or mind. The earlier forms etik, etc., were < Old French étique (13th cent. in Littré) = Italian etico, Spanish etico, Romanic forms < hecticus; the later agree with French hectique (Paré, 16th cent.). A. adj. 1. a. Belonging to or symptomatic of the bodily condition or habit: applied to that kind of fever which accompanies consumption or other wasting diseases, and is attended with flushed cheeks and hot dry skin. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > other fevers slowc1300 hectic1398 remitting1583 altern1594 hectical1614 hective1642 remittent1670 imputrid1684 intercurrent1684 aestuous1708 angiotenic1799 anabatic1811 masked1833 hyperpyretic1876 hyperpyrexial1896 hyperpyrexic1897 tularaemic1954 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [adjective] > high temperature > affected with hoteOE pungent1817 hectic1819 hyperthermic1896 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. xxxv. 248 The feuer etyk hurtyth and greuyth the sadde membres. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 103 In consumyng agues which ar called hectice. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xlix. 71 Such as are fallen into Consumtions and Feuer Hetiques. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Hecticke, inflaming the hart, and soundest parts of the bodie. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Ectique Thence is a feuer called Hecticke, when it hath possessed all parts of the bodie, without any alteration in it selfe. 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) i. viii. 48 The Quartan, the Continual, the Hittique. 1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum Hectick..it is only joined to that kind of Fever which is slow and continual, and ending in a Consumption. 1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. i. iv. 45 Hectic fever is more or less remittent, but never wholly intermittent. b. Belonging to or symptomatic of this fever. ΚΠ 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 541 No hectique disposition upon the body so sapes away the strength thereof. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. v. (R.) The hectick heate Of Oswald's blood doubled their pulses pace. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 131 All the Rose to one small Spot withdrew: They call'd it hectic; 'twas a fiery Flush. 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic xiii. 326 This action on the lungs..oppresses them with a hectic cough. 1885 ‘E. Lyall’ In Golden Days I. x. 283 Like the hectic beauty of one dying of consumption. c. Affected with hectic fever; consumptive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > other fevers > affected with hectical1614 hectic1665 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 24 All of them in time..become paralitick and dye hectick. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 151 Thin, puny, yellow, hectic figures. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. iv. 58 A pretty, hectic girl of sixteen. 1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 54 Many young people with hectic cheeks. 2. figurative. a. Wasting, consuming. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > [adjective] > wasting or consuming hectic1613 1613 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (rev. ed.) iii. v. 495 All enioyings are not alike. There are some hecticke, faint and languishing ones. b. With reference to the hectic flush. ΚΠ 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to West Wind i, in Prometheus Unbound 189 The leaves..Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red. 1826 F. D. Hemans Forest Sanctuary ii. xii Day's last hectic blush. 1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. iii. 99 Thrill with vehement and hectic feeling. †3. In etymological sense: Habitual, constitutional. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] habitudinalc1380 ordinala1425 usantc1450 habituate1526 habited1605 habitual1611 solemn1616 habituary1627 hectic1641 practised1656 regular1786 familiar1920 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 51 That hectick disposition to evill, the sourse of all vice. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 5 He seemed naturally to affect a majestique carelesnesse, which was so hectique, so habitual in him as [etc.]. 4. Stirring, exciting, disturbing; characterized by a state of feverish excitement or activity. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > characterized by or causing commotive1605 nervous1775 jumpy1883 hectic1904 1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 210 Didn't I say we never met in pup-pup-puris naturalibus, if I may so put it, without a remarkably hectic day ahead of us? 1922 Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. The hectic undulations of the mark. 1922 Westm. Gaz. 7 Nov. Those hectic inconsidered actions which kept the country in a state of crisis for some ten days. 1922 Daily Mail 21 Nov. 11 As additional excitements to the hectic finishes one horse was killed and the judge mistook the winner of the Leycester Nursery. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 117 Hectic show, an Air Force expression for flying very low. 1968 Daily Mirror 20 Aug. 9/2 Stretch bikini bottoms and loose towelling tops in hectic colours. B. n. (elliptical use of the adjective.) 1. a. A hectic fever. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) xvi. v It helpeþ tisik and etik. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 279 Or þe patient falle into etikis. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iii. f. 37^v He is in an eticke or a consumpcion. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. iii. 68 Like the Hectique in my blood he rages, And thou must cure me. View more context for this quotation 1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours ii. 88 In them that have the consumption, the lungs especially are affected, and the whole body in hecticks. 1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 237 She had much hectic and sweating. b. figurative. ΚΠ c1430 J. Lydgate Æsop's Fab. iii. 26 in Herrig's Archiv LXXXV. 25 With suche false etykes many man is shent. 1647 Case Kingdom 2 This heat of Presbytery proved..an Hectique in the body Politique of Scotland. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 7 Wishing, that constant Hectick of a Fool. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 30 I have often had the fool's hectic of wishing about the unalterable. 2. A person affected with hectic fever; a consumptive person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > consumption > person phthisica1398 phthisical1618 hectica1657 consumptive1666 pulmonic1733 phthinode1870 a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. ii. 126 The Hecticke has y^e Day To cease in, but drinks Marrow. 1687 T. Willis in P. Madan Phylosophical Ess. Waters Tunbridge 9 As for Hecticks, they are commonly of a fine texture of Body. a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 151 The hectic, lull'd On Death's lean arm to rest. 3. A hectic flush; transferred a flush or heightened colour on the cheek; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > with blushing blushing1581 flushing1590 suffusion1700 flush1706 bloom1752 mantling1753 rouge1759 hectic1768 vermilion1787 smoking1862 mantle1897 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 17 A hectic of a moment pass'd across his cheek. 1847 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun (1853) xvi. 41 One man's cheek kindled with the hectic of sudden joy. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. III. xxxii. 193 Overhead the sky had fainted into a sickly hectic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1398
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