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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cabal.

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Examples

  • For the life of me I'm not sure whether he believed it or not, but it was nothing to me, and while they all caballed for the next few days I indulged Elspeth by squiring her round the Indian encampments.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • There have always been among the refuse of our literature, some of those wretches who have sold their pens and caballed against their very benefactors.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Baltus likewise, in his capacity of Jesuit, caballed with no little perseverance and bitterness on the occasion, in union with his brethren, who at that time were as high in credit and influence as they have since been plunged deep in ignominy.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Jansenist set fire to them, and Letellier was burned to a cinder; while the Jansenist, who had no less caballed than the Jesuit, had his share of the flames.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Michael Angelo might say to Raphael, your envy has only induced you to study and execute still better than I do; you have not depreciated me, you have not caballed against me before the pope, you have not endeavored to get me excommunicated for placing in my picture of the Last Judgment one-eyed and lame persons in paradise, and pampered cardinals with beautiful women perfectly naked in hell!

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Because they have performed cures instead of miracles — have been useful and not caballed — cured poor women without either directing or seducing them.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The three last-named persons often held little conspiracies together, and caballed or grumbled against the head of the house.

    The Virginians 2006

  • Schedoni, however, yet remained to be tried; Vivaldi had no longer a doubt as to his having caballed with the Marchesa, and that he had been an agent in removing Ellena.

    The Italian 2004

  • For the life of me I'm not sure whether he believed it or not, but it was nothing to me, and while they all caballed for the next few days I indulged Elspeth by squiring her round the Indian encampments.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • For the life of me I'm not sure whether he believed it or not, but it was nothing to me, and while they all caballed for the next few days I indulged Elspeth by squiring her round the Indian encampments.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

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