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

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

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

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

Tell us if it is of an historical, political, hermetical, or scientific nature?...

From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.