hermetical

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But listing names of alleged abusers from such a closed, hermetical country was a valuable – and difficult – exercise, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2016

And in the midst of all these tortures he studied and practised the occult arts: magic, astrology, necromancy, alchemy; he concocted gold by hermetical science!

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

He conceived a kind of hermetical or neoplatonic godhead creating in more and more eccentric circles, until the last, which rose in contradiction, was Lucifer to whom creation was committed.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

In a seclusion almost hermetical they knew that a war existed between their country and the United States; but that was far away upon the Rio Grande.

From The Rifle Rangers by Reid, Mayne

Tell us if it is of an historical, political, hermetical, or scientific nature?...

From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.