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
These are his great merits, against which must be placed a flood of hermetical and transcendental medicine, some his own, some foisted in his name, the influence of which is still with us.
From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by William Osler
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
The nuts are screwed up tight, and the flange of the door, compressing the rubber lining, renders the joint hermetical.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
It was the opinion of Plato, and is yet of the hermetical philosophers.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
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