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Hermetic
A. adj.

1. (With capital initial.) Pertaining to Hermes Trismegistus, and the philosophical, theosophical, and other writings ascribed to him: see HERMES 3.

2. transf. and fig. a. Hence, Relating to or dealing with occult science, esp. alchemy; magical; alchemical. hermetic art, philosophy, science: names for alchemy or chemistry. Also, unaffected by external influences, recondite.

Omni- [Combinative form]
Forming compounds in which the first element has the sense ‘in all ways or places’, or ‘of all things’

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