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

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

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

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

Besides that, the patent hermetical barrel trade, and numerous other industries connected with the oil trade, will prosper at an unprecedented rate, to the great benefit and glory of the country.

From What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Bastiat, Frédéric