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Definition of Hermetic
1. Adjective. Completely sealed; completely airtight.
Definition of Hermetic
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic.
Definition of Hermetic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to alchemy or occult practices. ¹
3. Adjective. Obscure; secret or unrevealed. ¹
4. Adjective. Isolated, away from outside influence. ¹
5. Adjective. Airtight or gas-tight; impervious to air or gases. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hermetic
1. airtight [adj] - See also: airtight
Medical Definition of Hermetic
1. Impervious to air, airtight. Origin: L. Hermeticus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hermetic
Literary usage of Hermetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"After showing by appropriate tests that iron is still present the hermetic chemist
proceeds to explain the reaction by assuming the formation of the ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"Each explained the supposed hermetic figures as seemed most advantageous to himself
... He who held a beetle to denote the world in the hermetic columns, ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"hermetic Books, the sacred canon of the ancient Egyptians, consisted of forty-two
... The Greek and Latin texts of the hermetic l>ooks exist, ..."
4. Essays on the Floating-matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and by John Tyndall (1882)
"Remarks on hermetic Sealing. A few brief remarks on this subject may, I think,
... hermetic sealing during ebullition is an operation requiring some ..."
5. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1908)
"hermetic Philosophy. — Swedenborg.— Duality in Modern Philosophy. ... The mystic
jargon of the hermetic philosophers discloses the same general idea. ..."
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