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

He collects curiosities from all parts of the world; studies occult and natural sciences; and is at last beatified by electrical glories at a meeting of hermetical philosophers.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

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

He is smitten with the zeal of the hermetical philosophy.

From Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" by Curtis, George William

Sometimes luxuries appear of potted meats and hermetical vegetables, sent us by the fond New Yorkers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various