Meaning

(intransitive) To study and interpret the Kabbalah..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To study and interpret the Kabbalah.
2. (ambitransitive, by extension) To decode or demystify.
3. (transitive) To make mysterious; to entangle or obscure with the trappings of religion, mysticism, or superstition.
4. (transitive) To encode using wordplay such as acrostics or ciphers.
5. (rare, intransitive) To use cabalistic language or perform cabalistic magic.
6. (computing, transitive) To encode as a Haskell package with the ".cabal" extension, which can then be installed and interpreted using the cabal command.
7. (intransitive) To engage in politics as part of a cabal.
8. (transitive) To control or manipulate via a cabal or secret political organization.

Example Sentences

All the efforts to prove it have ended in mere appeals to cabalizing Jews, who lived long after the New Testament was written .

We let ourselves be influenced by Diotallevi, who was always cabalizing. He cabalized, so we put the Jews in the Plan. If he had been a scholar of Chinese culture, would we have put the Chinese in the Plan?

One of these last is Lonstein, an Argentine Jew who "rabbinizes" or "cabalizes" his way through the book, playing with language, obsessed by a mushroom he is cultivating at home , and given to digressions on the virtues of masturbation.

This way of Cabalizing gave the Name to Judas Maccabaus

They are not to be cabalized away by any extemporaneous ingenuity, and while they all the more imperiously demand the inauguration of new and superior influences for the formation of character, they put the subject more in the light of a duty we owe to posterity than of a present satisfaction of our own passional demands.

But yet if one is allowed to cabalize in this manner, I can more easily fit "Rech" (7.7) to the German word "Reich."

The Druids, says Rowlands, considered nature in her largest extent: in her systems and in her motions; in her magnitudes and powers; in all which they seemed to cabalize.

This household knowledge—which every woman knew—would be added to and passed on; in many cases cabalized and transmitted in the shape of charms and mysteries from mother to daughter.

Word Forms

• cabalizes
• cabalizing
• cabalized

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