hecticallyadv.
a. In the sense of hectic adj. 1.
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1761 S. Johnson Life Ascham in R. Ascham Eng. Wks. p. xiv He was for some years hectically feverish.
b. With feverish activity. colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adverb] > with excessive vigour
demonically1895
hectically1908
1908 Daily 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.
1972 Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 11 A hectically social couple of my acquaintance.
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