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

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

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

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

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

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

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