Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a secret or hidden meaning; occult.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the cabalists, or to the cabala or mystic philosophy which they professed. See
cabala and cabalist. - In general, occult; mystic; esoteric; symbolical; having an interior or hidden meaning.
- noun One of the mysteries of the cabala.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to a
cabal ;secretive andcliquish . - adjective Of or relating to
Kabballah .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a secret or hidden meaning
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word "Jafr" is supposed to mean a skin (camel's or dog's), prepared as parchment for writing; and Al-Jafr, the book here in question, is described as a cabalistic prognostication of all that will ever happen to the Moslems.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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M. de Bragadin said that it was Solomon's key, vulgarly called cabalistic science, and he asked me from whom I learnt it.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 04: Return to Venice Giacomo Casanova 1761
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M. de Bragadin said that it was Solomon's key, vulgarly called cabalistic science, and he asked me from whom I learnt it.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Grace untied her nice clean coil of rope, while Madaline besought her in every kind of cabalistic sign she could summon to her aid, to desist in her reckless intention of tieing the man to the tree.
The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. Lilian Garis 1913
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Log of _The Humane Hopwood_, which heretofore had been a kind of cabalistic Register, full of blots, crosses, half-moons, and zigzags, like the chalk score of an unlettered Ale-wife.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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M. de Bragadin said that it was Solomon’s key, vulgarly called cabalistic science, and he asked me from whom I learnt it.
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'catenary,' a line very simple in shape, but endowed with an algebraic symbol that has to resort to a kind of cabalistic number at variance with any sort of numeration, so much so that the unit refuses to express it, however much we subdivide the unit.
The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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It will probably take up a few white boards and photoshopped photos, fake documents, enlarged fine prints of this and that document with some cabalistic code, conspiring doctors that would have to include the AMA and the American Cancer Society, etc. to shed light on that vast conspiracy!
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There was always a ring of people somewhere uttering strange cabalistic noises, such as - ten he heads
Stalag 18A 2010
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The Online Etymology dictionary notes that the word was a magical formula circa 1696 from Late Gk. Abraxas, cabalistic or gnostic name for the supreme god, and thus a word of power.
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