hermitically

English

Adverb

hermitically

1. Misconstruction of hermetically (“in an airtight way”).

   When I proofread her draft of the food safety announcement, I corrected *"hermitically sealed" to read correctly as "hermetically sealed".

   • 2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with the High Yielding of Oleoresin in Secondary Xylem of Masson Pine ( Pinus massoniana Lamb) by Transcriptomic Analysis”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     The fresh oleoresin was collected using 1.5 mL polyethylene tube for each sample and the tube was hermitically closed and refrigerated until the analysis.

3. In the manner of a hermit.

   Hypernym: hermetically

   By his fifties, he had moved out to Alaska and was living quite hermitically.