Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The secret science of the cabalists.
- noun The practice of forming, or the tendency to form, cabals and cliques.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The secret science of the cabalists.
- noun R A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the doctrines of the Kabbalah
- noun adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation
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Examples
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There have always been small elements that equated Lovecraft's horror with other sociological peripheries that incorporated cabalism.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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There have always been small elements that equated Lovecraft's horror with other sociological peripheries that incorporated cabalism.
Author of "HPL and His Legacy" : The Lovecraft News Network 2009
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The tracing of likenesses quickly becomes rabbinism, almost cabalism.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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I do not know that there is more cabalism in the Anglican, than in other churches, but the Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
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During this period of seclusion he became deeply interested in magic, alchemy, astrology, cabalism, and all that sort of thing.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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Under all this influence he turned to cabalism and became interested in crystals and the microcosm and macrocosm, and fell into the habit of despair over what he had been and believed just before.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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I do not know that there is more cabalism in the Anglican, than in other churches, but the Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
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At first I expressed some perplexity at the questions having emanated from her royal highness, and I told her afterwards that I understood cabalism, but that I could not interpret the meaning of the answers obtained through it, and that her highness must ask new questions likely to render the answers easier to be understood.
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At first I expressed some perplexity at the questions having emanated from her royal highness, and I told her afterwards that I understood cabalism, but that I could not interpret the meaning of the answers obtained through it, and that her highness must ask new questions likely to render the answers easier to be understood.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 06: Paris Giacomo Casanova 1761
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It was about that time that the Count de Melfort, colonel of the Orleans regiment, entreated me through Camille, Coraline's sister, to answer two questions by means of my cabalism.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 06: Paris Giacomo Casanova 1761
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