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

Perhaps, in the suppression of our immortality, something metallic, something hermetical, has been broken down, and already we stand more easily exposed to the influences of the spirit?

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

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

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

The Neo- Platonism lay at the foundation; the hermetical, the mystical, the cabalistic, also contributed their share; and thus I built for myself a world that looked strange enough.

From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John