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

He is smitten with the zeal of the hermetical philosophy.

From Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" by Curtis, George William

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 Osler, William

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

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