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

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

Now, however, the sealing of the South was all but hermetical.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

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

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