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made airtight by fusion or sealing.

not affected by outward influence or power; isolated.

(sometimes initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of occult science, especially alchemy.

(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings ascribed to him.

Also, her·met·i·cal.

Origin:
1630–40; < Medieval Latin hermēticus of, pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus, equivalent to Latin Hermē(s) Hermes + -ticus -tic

Related forms

un·her·met·ic, adjective

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For a country that prides itself on its hermetic seal, it has played a pretty impressive game for the past eight years.

The bureaucracy is both hermetic and insular, slow-moving in its bulk, at times heavy-handed in its armour.

Protecting neighborhoods does not require hermetic seals but support by the population.

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For a country that prides itself on its hermetic seal, it has played a pretty impressive game for the past eight years.

The bureaucracy is both hermetic and insular, slow-moving in its bulk, at times heavy-handed in its armour.

Protecting neighborhoods does not require hermetic seals but support by the population.

As such, it is a reminder that the avant-garde is not necessarily hermetic when it comes to public issues.

Iran is bleakly cloaked with a hermetic and thick veneer that filters and impedes anything the government desires.

The thruster was also sealed into a hermetic enclosure to eliminate buoyancy effects of the cooling air.

The hermetic critical vocabulary of formalist art criticism is being dusted off and applied to the medium.

He engaged in hermetic semaphoric gesturing with his arms and stepped from a chair as if into a void.

And the end result is a completely hermetic system, into which contrary evidence cannot penetrate.

The poems he brought back are filled with ancient wonder and strangeness, hermetic wisdom, a dizzying sense of the sacred.

Colleges cannot and should not provide a hermetic environment for students.

Its images and emotions are memorable and vivid, but its intentions often feel stubbornly hermetic.

It is poetry that often seems on the verge of becoming poetics, a hermetic theory of its own practice.

Chatwin turns his attention to a different sort of hermetic life.

But its size and hermetic atmosphere are ideal for concentrated displays of books and manuscripts.

Broadway is often a hermetic little world, and even while.

Walken is unusually convincing in a difficult, hermetic kind of role.

Even exterior landscapes have been photographed in such a way as to suggest the exotic fraud of the steamy, hermetic interiors.

So all that people who live in the intellectually hermetic world of the right ever hear is that government employment is soaring.

Sondheim's music was considered too rigorously composed and hermetic to be readily open to the kind of improvisation.

The hermetic seal created in a sous vide bag traps flavor that would otherwise be lost.

Some performances were grim: the dogged working out of hermetic ideas on a bare stage.

Though much of this is amusing, the atmosphere eventually becomes both esoteric and hermetic.

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World English Dictionary

hermetic or hermetical (hɜːˈmɛtɪk)

—*adj*
1.	sealed so as to be airtight
2.	hidden or protected from the outside world

[C17: from Medieval Latin hermēticus belonging to Hermes Trismegistus, traditionally the inventor of a magic seal]

hermetical or hermetical

—*adj*

[C17: from Medieval Latin hermēticus belonging to Hermes Trismegistus, traditionally the inventor of a magic seal]

her'metically or hermetical

—*adv*

Hermetic (hɜːˈmɛtɪk)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to Hermes Trismegistus or the writings and teachings ascribed to him
2.	of or relating to ancient science, esp alchemy
3.	esoteric or recondite

[see hermetic]

Hermetic (hɜːˈmɛtɪk)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to ancient science, esp alchemy
2.	esoteric or recondite

[see hermetic]

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Word Origin & History

hermetic

1605 (implied in hermetically), "completely sealed," also (1637) "dealing with occult science or alchemy," from L. hermeticus, from Gk. Hermes, god of science and art, among other things, identified by Neoplatonists, mystics, and alchemists with the Egyptian god Thoth as Hermes Trismegistos "Thrice-Great

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Hermes," who supposedly invented the process of making a glass tube airtight (a process in alchemy) using a secret seal.

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Medical Dictionary

hermetic her·met·ic (hər-mět'ĭk) or her·met·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
adj.
Completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air.

her·met'i·cal·ly adv.

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