cabalistic

How To Use cabalistic In A Sentence

• The Online Etymology dictionary notes that the word was a magical formula circa 1696 from Late Gk. Abraxas, cabalistic or gnostic name for the supreme god, and thus a word of power. Blog – syllable studio
• Other witnesses deponed that Rebecca muttered to herself in an unknown tongue, that the songs she sang were peculiarly sweet, that her garments were of a strange mystic form, and that she had rings with cabalistic devices. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
• It is significant that the town of Troyes, from which Chrétien took his surname, was a cabalistic centre and the site of the original Templar preceptory—and it was where the Count of Champagne held his court. The Templar Revelation
• Like the cabalistic use of hints and allusions, it achieves results seemingly out of proportion to the measures employed.
• The peculiar meaning of all these cabalistical words few or none could explain; but they implied, upon the whole, that the Waverley
• Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Ivanhoe
• 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
• The theory that if 9 men take 90 days to make up their individual minds, 15 men will take fewer days to make up theirs is cabalistic arithmetic.
• 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
• “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