Noah Webster
Hectic
HEC'TIC
HEC'TICAL, adjective [Gr. habit of body, to have.] Habitual; denoting a slow, continual fever, marked by preternatural, though remitting heat, which precedes and accompanies the consumption or phthisis; as a hectic fever.
1. Affected with hectic fevers; as a hectic patient.
2. Troubled with a morbid heat.
No hectic student scares the gentle maid.
HEC'TIC, noun A hectic; or habitual fever.