HERMETIC • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Hermetic

... logician, a smooth rhetorician, a pleasant poet, a great philosopher, an ingenious mathematician, and a holy divine. That he was a great master in astronomy, is plain by his discourses of the Astrolabe. That he was versed in hermetic philosophy (which prevailed much at that time), appears by his Tale of the Chanons Yeoman: His knowledge in divinity is evident from his Parson's Tale, and his philosophy from the Testament of Love." Thus qualified to make a figure in ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber