HERMETICAL

  

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HERMETICAL

Definitions: HERMETICAL

HERMETICAL

Adjective

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Translations: HERMETICAL

Language Translations for "HERMETICAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

密封 (hermetic, sealed). (various references)

   

French

  

hermétique (hermetic), étanche (hermetic). (various references)

   

German

  

luftdicht (air tight, airtight, air-tight, hermetic, sealed), hermetisch (airtight, air-tight, hermetic, hermetically, sealed). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kedap (close-meshed, impermeable, watertight). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ermetico (abstruse, air-tight, dark, difficult to understand, hermetic, obscure, obscurely, opaque, recondite, sealed, tight). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

비한 (hermetic, Mysterious). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ermeticalhay

   

Spanish

  

hermetico (hermetic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: HERMETICAL

Derivations

Words beginning with "HERMETICAL": hermetically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"HERMETICAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heremetical, herimetical, Hermetica, Hermeticum. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HERMETICAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-l-m-r-t"

-1 letter: heretical.

-2 letters: aetheric, hermetic, hetaeric, leachier, materiel, metrical, realtime, rhematic.

-3 letters: article, atelier, charlie, cheater, chelate, chimera, chimere, claimer, climate, cremate, emerita, emirate, erethic, etheric, ethical, haltere, hectare, hematic, heretic, lathier, leacher, leather, machete, machree, maltier, marlite, matcher, mealier, meatier, metical, miracle, recheat, recital, reclaim, reclame, rematch, reteach, reticle, teacher, techier, theriac, thermae, thermal, thermel, thermic, tiercel, trachle, treacle.

-4 letters: achier, aether, amerce, archil, armlet, atelic, cahier, calmer, camlet, cartel, ceiler, cerate, cereal, cerite, cermet, chalet, chelae, chimar, chimer, chimla, chiral, chital, cither, citral, claret, create, ecarte, eclair, either, elater, elmier, emetic, etcher, haemic, hailer, halite, halter, hamlet, hareem, healer, heater, heliac, helmet, hereat, hermae, hermai, hermit, hiemal, imaret, lacier, lather, lecher, lichee, lither, mailer, malice, marcel, mealie, melter, metier, metric, milter, mither, mitral, raceme, rachet, ramtil, recite, rectal, reemit, reheat, relace, relate, relict, remail, remate, remelt, retail, reteam, retial, retile, retime, rictal, tailer, techie, tercel, thairm, thaler, thecae, thecal, therme, thiram, thrice, tierce, tramel.

-5 letters: aerie, aimer, airth, aitch, alert, almeh, alter, ameer, amice, areic, arete, ariel, armet, artel, camel, caret, carle, carte, cater, ceria, chair, chare, charm, chart, cheat, cheer, chela, chert, chiel, chile, chime, chirm, citer, claim, clear, cleat, clime, crate, cream, creel, creme, crime, earth, eater, eclat, elate, elect, elemi, elite, email, erect, erica, ether, ethic, haler, harem, hater, heart, hemal, hemic, herma, hilar, ihram, ileac, irate, ither, lacer, laich, laith, lamer, larch, laree, latch, later, lathe, lathi, leach, leech, letch, lethe, licht, liter, lithe, litre, macer, mache, macle, maile, malic, march, match, mater, melic, merit, merle, metal, meter, metre, miche, micra, milch, miler, mirth, miter, mitre, ramee, ramet, ramie, ratch, ratel, rathe, reach, react, realm, recta, recti, rehem, relet, relic, relit, remet, remit, retch, retem, retia, retie, tache, taler, tamer, teach, telae, telia, telic, terai, terce, tharm, theca, their, theme, there, therm, thirl, three, tical, tiler, timer, trace, trail, triac, trial, trice.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-l-m-r-t"
 

+2 letters: hermetically.

 

+3 letters: cephalometric, hermeneutical, hypermetrical, petrochemical.

 

+4 letters: cephalometries, cholestyramine, exothermically, hypermetabolic, multichambered, petrochemicals, stereochemical, thermochemical.

 

+5 letters: cholestyramines, electrochemical, heliometrically, hermeneutically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HERMETICAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 52 4D 45 54 49 43 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .    .-.    --    .    -    ..    -.-.    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01010010 01001101 01000101 01010100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#82 &#77 &#69 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0052 004D 0045 0054 0049 0043 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42395247395443373546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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