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Hermaic, a. (n.)|həˈmeɪɪk|
[ad. Gr. Ἑρµαϊκ-ός of or like Hermes.]
1. Of or belonging to Hermes Trismegistus; = hermetic a. 1.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §18. 320 All the Hermaic or Trismegistic books that are now extant. 1744Berkeley Siris §287 Speculations contained in the Hermaic writings. 1872W. Mathews Getting on in World ix. (1873) 132 To distinguish between the ‘me’ and the ‘non-me’ with more than Hermaic subtlety.
b. as n. (pl.) The writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §18. 325 Those Books which Porphyrius saith he met withal, (namely the Hermaicks, and those Writings of Chæremon).
2. = Hermæan.
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. p. xxviii, He compared them to the Hermaic statues, so common in their streets. 1876A. Wilder in R. P. Knight Symbol. Lang. Anc. Art 63 note, Four-square, like the Hermaic pillars. |