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

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

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

Now, however, the sealing of the South was all but hermetical.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

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