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

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

His measure of usefulness became full in 1798 when the hermetical seal of death closed his bright career.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll

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