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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hermetic Powder | Literature | 1: Solder." Butler: Hudibras, i. 2. 2: Replete with strange hermetic powder, 3: "For by his side a pouch he wore 4: That wounds nine miles point-blank would 5: The sympathetic powder, supposed to possess a healing influence from a distance. The mediaeval philosophers were very fond of calling books, drugs, etc., connected with alchemy and astrology by the term hermetic, out of compliment to Hermes Trismegistus. (Sir Kenelm Digby: Discourse Concerning the Cure of Wounds by Sympathy.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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