The word is taken from Hermes, the Greek name for Mercury, the heathen god of arts and learning, and the supposed inventor of chemistry, [9] which is sometimes called the hermetical art; or perhaps from Hermes, an ancient king of Egypt, who was either its inventor, or excelled in it. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
He conceived a kind of hermetical or neoplatonic godhead creating in more and more eccentric circles, until the last, which rose in contradiction, was Lucifer to whom creation was committed. ❋ G. Stanley Hall (1885)
MADRID—Debussy once wrote that music should be "a hermetical science," encoded so that people didn't treat it "as casually as they do a handkerchief." ❋ Jonathan Blitzer (2011)
It was the opinion of Plato, and is yet of the hermetical philosophers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They absolutely changed from a hermetical, tribal people trying to be Western. ❋ Unknown (1995)
He left an extensive library, composed principally of chemical, hermetical, and philosophical works, of which the MSS. catalogue is now in the possession of my friend, the Rev.T. Corser. ❋ Thomas Potts (N/A)
The closing is made hermetical by means of an India rubber tube, K, which presses against the glass and the cover. ❋ Various (N/A)
In order to study the first of these properties, the porous partition, fixed by a hermetical joint to a glass tube, is immersed in the water (Fig. 2). ❋ Various (N/A)
The heat kills all the bacteria which may chance to be lodged in it, and the hermetical sealing prevents other bacteria from obtaining access. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Sometimes luxuries appear of potted meats and hermetical vegetables, sent us by the fond New ❋ Various (N/A)
The reasoning was: "Boiling has killed all forms of vitality _in_ the flask; by the hermetical sealing nothing living can gain subsequent access to the fluid; therefore, if living organisms do appear when the flask is opened, they must have arisen in the dead matter _de novo_ by spontaneous generation, but if they do never so arise, the probability is that they originate in spores or eggs." ❋ Various (N/A)
A sect of hermetical philosophers, founded in the fifteenth century, who were engaged in the study of abstruse sciences. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
Its object, then, is to form a hermetical joint, although it must at the same time present but a slight resistance, since, as soon as the liquid paste has flowed out, the piece begins to shrink, and it is necessary that at the first movement downward it shall be able to disengage itself, since it would otherwise crack. ❋ Various (N/A)
Abbot John says of himself that he had passed from the solitary life, in which he was professed, to a less severe life, namely of those who lived in community, because the hermetical life had fallen into decline and laxity. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
The nuts are screwed up tight, and the flange of the door, compressing the rubber lining, renders the joint hermetical. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Tell us if it is of an historical, political, hermetical, or scientific nature? ... ❋ Nesta H. Webster (1918)
Now, however, the sealing of the South was all but hermetical. ❋ Morse, John T (1899)
They travelled the whole distance in first-class hermetical boxes, filled with water and thickly lined with seaweed, and were landed, if the expression may be used, in the new and excellent tank provided for them in the basement of the Museum. ❋ Unknown (1891)
One drops the hermetical seal of a curtain behind, upon entering, and behold, with the world is also shut out the bitter cold, and one is folded, as it were, in a soft mantle of down, as if angels wrapped their wings about us. ❋ Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1888)
