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
The closing is made hermetical by means of an India rubber tube, K, which presses against the glass and the cover.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various
Now, however, the sealing of the South was all but hermetical.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
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 Isaac Disraeli
The heat kills all the bacteria which may chance to be lodged in it, and the hermetical sealing prevents other bacteria from obtaining access.
From The Story of Germ Life by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
