Hermetic

(hér-met’ik), a. [ relating to Hermes or to alehemy or chemistry, Hermetic 2806 Their seals, their characters, hermetic rings. In thy dumb action I will be as perfect B. Jonson, Underwoods, 1xii. As begging hermits in their holy prayers. Shak., Tit. And., iii, 2. Among the numerous students of her me tick philosophy, not one appears to have desisted from the task of trans- For those of old, mutation from conviction of its impo ibility, but from And the late dignities heap'd up to them, wearine of toil or impatience of delay, a broken body We rest your hermits. Shak., Macbeth, i. 6. or exhausted fortune. Rambler, No, 68. 3. In zodl., one of sundry animals of solitary It is well known that I have approached more nearly to or secluded habits. See the compounds. projection than any other hermetic artist who now lives. Scott, Kenilworth, xviii. The house-hunting adventures of the hermits [hermit crabs] have been so frequently described that a repetition In solitude and utter silence did the disciples of the is usele . Amer. Naturalist, XXII, 894. Hermetic Philosophy toil from day to day, from night to night. Long fellow, Hyper i on, iii. False hermit. See false.=Syn. 1. Monk (see anchoret), ascetic, solitary. ae 8. [l. ¢.] Of or pertaining to a hermes: as, a