cabalize — English Dictionary

cabalize
Pronunciations (2)
  • /kəˈbɑːlaɪz/
  • /ˈkæbəlaɪz/

Verb

  1. To study and interpret the Kabbalah.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

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

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    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.

  2. To decode or demystify.

    Usage
    • Transitive or intransitive
    • broadly
    Examples

    This way of Cabalizing gave the Name to Judas Maccabaus

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    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."

  3. To make mysterious; to entangle or obscure with the trappings of religion, mysticism, or superstition.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    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.

    The result of Gnosticism was thus not to christianize the Cabala, but to cabalize Christianity by mingling its pure and simple teaching with theosophy and even magic.

    The question for Rumphius was where those powers lay, not whether they existed: "It is true that the common people tell of many strange events, that they have seen people, who could not be killed with any kind of weapon, until one or more of those little stones had been cut out of their bodies where the same had been pushed in; our people have confronted such cabalized people in war, and these things have been said by our own officers, so that I do not care to contradict the same."

    This text gives the film a mark of three out of five, saying little about the antireligious message properly speaking, which is dealt with in a short introduction mentioning “the cultural backwardness of the masses in a state of religious captivity,” “the cabalized situation of women who don't have the courage to remove their veil," and the need to "break the shackles of religious prejudice" in order to build a new life.

  4. To encode using wordplay such as acrostics or ciphers.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    Since then anything we see cabalized, or a word that was formed from the initials of other words, so we have ours.

    The immediate and marked success of these two cabalized volumes of James' clearly suggests unnatural skill and power were at work.

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    Grillot de Givry, who first commented on the discovery in his Musée des Sorciers, just over a hundred years later, interpreted the text as cabalized alchemy, presumably from the pen of Saint-Germain, one of the sole remaining documents attributable to this timeless sage of the eighteenth century.

  5. To use cabalistic language or perform cabalistic magic.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    • Rare
    Examples
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    I can employ no man's justification herein more properly than yours, to whom I proposed this difficulty before coming out of England, and received your leave to converse freely but not to cabalize with them .

    Having nothing to do, I took out my besmeared cards, sat under the stove and began to cabalize.

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    Hence the anxiety of these "experts" to protect their monopoly by refusing to express themselves in the vernacular. Ambroise Paré, whose Oeuvres (1575) were written in French, complained at the same time about those "who want to cabalize the arts and lock them under the laws of some specific language".

  6. To encode as a Haskell package with the ".cabal" extension, which can then be installed and interpreted using the cabal command.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    The scaffolded site is built as a fully cabalized Haskell package.

    To use stack to build our toy project we cabalized previously, we need to create a stack.yaml file for it.

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    This documentation can be generated for any cabalized project with the following simple command: $ cabal haddock

Verb

  1. To engage in politics as part of a cabal.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples
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    The heroes who cabalize and lend on pledge , who pocket silver spoons and risk the pillory , are found in Schröder's “Fähndrich,” in ffland's “Hagestolzen," in "Verbrechen aus Ehrsucht, ” by the same dramatic writer, and in Kotzebue's "Kind der Liebe."

    Thus, again, in politics we see the centrifugal principle cabalizing with the most calculating desperation between the shades or factions of the same political party , who vie with each other for the spoils.

    The cabinet became a center of petty bickering and continuous cabalizing, and Congress split into irreconcilable factions and repeated asserted its will against the president.

  2. To control or manipulate via a cabal or secret political organization.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    Neopatrimonialism describes a political system in which political power is personalized and in some cases cabalized; public offices and resources are prebendalized;

    The reason is that political and economic power is primarily personalized and cabalized .

    Some have argued that the subsidy is one of the benefits many Nigerians derive from the country's 'cabalized' political regimes.

Word forms
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