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Hermetic

adjective
1.
Completely sealed; completely airtight.





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"Hermetic" Quotes from Famous Books



... or The Sage's Triumph over Old Age and the Grave (translated from the Latin of Cohausen, with annotations), 1743. Dr. Johnson pronounced the volume "very entertaining as an account of the hermetic philosophy and as furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the human mind," adding "if it were merely imaginary it would be ...
— The Tale of Terror • Edith Birkhead
... true adept, seeking what spiritual ore there might be among the dross of the hermetic philosophy. What he says sincerely and inwardly was the cant of those outward professors of the doctrine who were content to dwell in the material part of it forever. In Jonathan Brewster, we have a specimen of these Wagners. Is it not curious, that there should have been ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... of "Alchemy and the Alchemists," "Swedenborg a Hermetic Philosopher," and "Christ ...
— A Christmas Greeting • Hans Christian Andersen


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