Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as cabalistic.

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  • adjective Alternative form of cabalistic.

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Examples

  • I remember the time when I thought that word cabalistical; when, in the gay moments of youth, it seemed to me a mysterious term for every thing that is delightful; and such is the force of early associations, that even now I cannot divest myself of them.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various

  • These spirits are supposed to be of four distinct kinds, as the elements from which they have their origin, and are known, to those who have studied the cabalistical philosophy, by the names of Sylphs, Gnomes, Salamanders, and

    The Monastery 2008

  • “But an it be so,” said Warden, “Christian men might better guard themselves by the sword of prayer than by the idle form of a cabalistical spell.”

    The Monastery 2008

  • In the midst were some Latin verses from a cabalistical author, written out so fairly, that even the gloom of the place did not prevent Tressilian from reading them.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • The aid of the Jewish physicians was not the less eagerly sought after, though a general belief prevailed among the Christians, that the Jewish Rabbins were deeply acquainted with the occult sciences, and particularly with the cabalistical art, which had its name and origin in the studies of the sages of Israel.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • The different chambers being opened successively, every individual was effectually silenced by the sound of one cabalistical word, which was no other than Waistcoat.

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • The peculiar meaning of all these cabalistical words few or none could explain; but they implied, upon the whole, that the

    Waverley 2004

  • Agadici, who would expound the written law in a more profound way than ordinary, even to what was cabalistical.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Every tittle and apex shall give them occasion for fruitless conjectures, as vain, for the most part, as those of the cabalistical

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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