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

It was the opinion of Plato, and is yet of the hermetical philosophers.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

And in the midst of all these tortures he studied and practised the occult arts: magic, astrology, necromancy, alchemy; he concocted gold by hermetical science!

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

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

Tin makes an hermetical filling, and resists the disintegrating action of the fluids of the mouth.

From Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth by Ambler, Henry Lovejoy