Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of the cabalists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a cabalistic manner.
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- adverb in a
cabalistic manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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He did not know why, nor did he know what "cabalistically" meant.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891 Various
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A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.
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Nev subsided into glum silence while Benden continued to peer at the numbers on the screen, half wishing they would cabalistically rearrange themselves into a solution for his dilemma.
The Chronicles of Pern McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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Nev subsided into glum silence while Benden continued to peer at the numbers on the screen, half wishing they would cabalistically rearrange themselves into a solution for his dilemma.
Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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Nev subsided into glum silence while Benden continued to peer at the numbers on the screen, half wishing they would cabalistically rearrange themselves into a solution for his dilemma.
First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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The chalk-mark on the bottles was intended to be cabalistically private, but an acquaintance with the occult dialect of Spanish Zingari convinced you that 1/2, meant nothing else than that the bottles represented twelve and a half cents each, with three years interest, -- a fabulous sum, but lavished in a direction where the pledge of a dukedom had not been irrational, if the object could not have been otherwise accomplished.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The dark walls did look most awful, seen through the dun yellow light of the fog, which met my view upon drawing aside the cabalistically hung curtains.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 Various
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Bryant supposes that by it they intended the Great Father Noah; but it is very possible that it was a modification of the Hebrew tetragrammaton, being the last syllable read cabalistically (see _ho-hi_); if so, it signified the great male principle of nature.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey
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To learn to put down rows of figures and find that one and one, cabalistically, made two, and two and two, four!
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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To learn to put down rows of figures and find that one and one, cabalistically, made two, and two and two, four!
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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