Crossword clues for hermetic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hermetic \Her*met"ic\, Hermetical \Her*met"ic*al\, a. [F. herm['e]tique. See Note under Hermes,
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] 1. Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic. ``Delusions of the hermetic art.''
--Burke.The alchemists, as the people were called who tried to make gold, considered themselves followers of Hermes, and often called themselves Hermetic philosophers.
--A. B. Buckley. Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine.
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Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically. Hermetic art, alchemy. Hermetic books.
Books of the Egyptians, which treat of astrology.
Books which treat of universal principles, of the nature and orders of celestial beings, of medicine, and other topics.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600 (implied in hermetically), "completely sealed," also (1630s) "dealing with occult science or alchemy," from Latin hermeticus, from Greek 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 Hermes," who supposedly invented the process of making a glass tube airtight (a process in alchemy) using a secret seal.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chiefly with capital initial English) Pertaining to (w: Hermes Trismegistus) or the writings attributed to him. 2 Pertaining to alchemy or occult practices; magical, alchemical. 3 hermetically sealed. 4 Isolated, away from outside influence. 5 (misspelling of hermitic English) n. (context in plural English) Hermetic philosophy or practice.
WordNet
adj. completely sealed; completely airtight
Wikipedia
The term "hermetic" may refer to:
- Hermeticism, a magical and religious movement stemming from the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus
- Hermeticism (poetry), a literary movement in poetry started in Italy
- Hermeticism (history of science), reconstructing the mode of thought held by 17th century scientists
- Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, an initiatic occult organisation that first became public in late 1884
- Hermetic Qabalah, a syncretism of Kabbalah within Hermeticism
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Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a 19th-century occult society
- The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc., a modern occult society
- Hermetic seal, an airtight seal
- Hermetic detector, a particle detector with large-angle coverage, designed to observe as many particles from an interaction as possible
- Hermetica, also known as the Corpus Hermeticum or Hermetic Corpus, a corpus of Egyptian or Greek literature
- Hermética, an Argentine heavy metal band
Usage examples of "hermetic".
This subversion is true not only of Marxist theory explicitly engaged in polemics against literary autonomy, but also of deconstructionist theory, even at its most hermetic and abstract.
The interpretation of the Hermetic fables shows, among every ancient people, in their principal gods, first, 1, the Creating Monad, then 3, then 3 times 3, 3 times 9, and 3 times 27.
Hermetic fables show, in their interpretation, the principal Gods of the ancients, 631-u.
Although the precise details vary, it is the common Gnostic belief that reached as far as the medieval Cathars, and which underlines the hermetic cosmology that is the basis of Western occultism, running through alchemy to the hermeticism of the Renaissance.
Fire of the Hermetics, secret, living, philosophical, spoken of reservedly, 775-u.
Mercury, with the Hermetics, corresponds with the Air and Water, 773-l.
Philosophy of the Hermetics that of the schools of Alexandria and the theories of Pythagoras, 774-l.
Problem of the Hermetics to transmute metals and possess the elixir of life, 772-l.
Reason, Supreme and unalterable, is the Philosophal Stone of the Hermetics, 775-l.
Religion of the Hermetics that of the Magi and ancient Initiates, 774-l.
Salt represented by the Hermetics under the form of a cubical stone, 775-l.
Science of the Hermetics given by Paracelsus, Flamel, Raymond Lulle, 774-l.
Sun and Moon, King and Queen, symbolized by the Hermetics as gold and silver, 774-m.
There were references to Hermetics, and the Canopy, and the Mulch, and sometimes to something called the Game, but none of these terms were elaborated upon.
The palanquins of hermetics glided amongst them: dark, upright boxes like metronomes.