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hermetically, adv.|həˈmɛtɪkəlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a hermetical manner.
1. Used to denote a method of sealing or closing a tube or vessel by fusing it at the opening, or by soldering or welding; hence, by any mode which renders it absolutely air-tight. See hermetic a. 2 b.
1605Timme Quersit. ii. v. 123 A smal cappe or cover, with his receiver, strongly and well luted, hermetically closed rounde about. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 134 When he suffer'd those things to putrefie in Hermetically sealed glasses..no living thing was ever produced there. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 132 Hermetically closed up to prevent any water coming to them. 1877W. Thomson Voy. Challenger I. i. 24 The receiver is now hermetically sealed at the upper contraction.
b. Surg. Used of a method of dressing gunshot wounds; see hermetic a. 2 b, quot. 1886.
1870T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) II. 203 A plan of treating gun-shot wounds of the chest by hermetically sealing their external orifices, was introduced during the late war in America..The record of the results..are sufficiently ample to warrant an unqualified condemnation of the practice.
c. fig. Closely, tightly; absolutely (closed).
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 40 Were not the Mouth of that Grand Imposter Hermetically sealed up, where Christianity is spread. 1780Cowper Let. 2 July, If you trust me with a secret, I am hermetically sealed. 1855Prescott Philip II, Pref. (1857) 4 The Archives which have held the secrets of the Spanish monarchy hermetically sealed for ages. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. (ed. 2) 71 The passage from the Natural World to the Spiritual World is hermetically sealed on the Natural Side.
†2. By the method of alchemy. Obs.
1664J. Wilson Cheats iii. i, Jol. Pray, sir, proceed; and disclose this son of gold. Mop. Hermetically, I shall. |