Definition of "hermetical" []

• Alternative form of hermetic. (adjective)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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.""