hectic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hectic	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for hectic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hectic adj marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace" Synonym(s): feverish, hectic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hectic \Hec"tic\, a. [F. hectique, Gr. [?] habitual, consumptive, fr. [?] habit, a habit of body or mind, fr. [?] to have; akin to Skr. sah to overpower, endure; cf. AS. sige, sigor, victory, G. sieg, Goth. sigis. Cf. {Scheme}.] 1. Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush. 2. In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient. {Hectic fever} (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hectic \Hec"tic\, n. 1. (Med.) Hectic fever. 2. A hectic flush. It is no living hue, but a strange hectic. --Byron.