■ adjective
1》 full of incessant or frantic activity.
2》 Medicine, archaic affected by or denoting a recurrent fever typically accompanying tuberculosis, with flushed cheeks and hot, dry skin.
■ noun Medicine, archaic a ~ fever or flush.
Derivatives
~ally adverb
Origin
ME etik , via OFr. from late L. ~us , from Gk hektikos 'habitual'.