How To Use Cabalistic In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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Like the cabalistic use of hints and allusions, it achieves results seemingly out of proportion to the measures employed.
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The peculiar meaning of all these cabalistical words few or none could explain; but they implied, upon the whole, that the
Waverley
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Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim
Ivanhoe
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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
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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.
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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
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“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
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The passage is as follows, ‘the malisons which he muttered…, were of truly cabalistic length and fearfulness.’
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These spirits are supposed to be of four distinct kinds, as the elements from which they have their origin, and are known, to those who have studied the cabalistical philosophy, by the names of Sylphs, Gnomes, Salamanders, and
The Monastery
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M. de Bragadin said that it was Solomon's key, vulgarly called cabalistic science, and he asked me from whom I learnt it.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 04: Return to Venice
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Will you deny, said Coictier, the sympathetic influence of the clavicula, and that it is the key to all cabalistic science?
I. The Abbot of St.-Martin’s. Book V
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Agadici, who would expound the written law in a more profound way than ordinary, even to what was cabalistical.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Every tittle and apex shall give them occasion for fruitless conjectures, as vain, for the most part, as those of the cabalistical
Pneumatologia
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In the midst were some Latin verses from a cabalistical author, written out so fairly, that even the gloom of the place did not prevent Tressilian from reading them.
Kenilworth
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Smith's collage imagery in this film more directly alludes to his particular interests, drawing as they do on ‘Cabalistic symbolism, Indian chiromancy […] dancing, Buddhist mandalas, and Renaissance alchemy’.
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Like the cabalistic use of hints and allusions, it achieves results seemingly out of proportion to the measures employed.
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The word "Jafr" is supposed to mean a skin (camel's or dog's), prepared as parchment for writing; and Al-Jafr, the book here in question, is described as a cabalistic prognostication of all that will ever happen to the Moslems.
Arabian nights. English
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cabalistic symbols engraved in stone
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Grace untied her nice clean coil of rope, while Madaline besought her in every kind of cabalistic sign she could summon to her aid, to desist in her reckless intention of tieing the man to the tree.
The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C.
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M. de Bragadin said that it was Solomon’s key, vulgarly called cabalistic science, and he asked me from whom I learnt it.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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Log of _The Humane Hopwood_, which heretofore had been a kind of cabalistic Register, full of blots, crosses, half-moons, and zigzags, like the chalk score of an unlettered Ale-wife.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
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The different chambers being opened successively, every individual was effectually silenced by the sound of one cabalistical word, which was no other than Waistcoat.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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In this treatise he shows that the cabalistic works, ‘which are palmed upon ancient authorities, are pseudonymous; that the doctrines themselves are mischievous; and that the followers of this system are inflated with proud notions, pretending to know the nature of God better than any one else, and to possess the nearest and best way of approaching the Deity.’
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There was always a ring of people somewhere uttering strange cabalistic noises, such as - ten he heads
Stalag 18A
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Better surroundings and care for babies, better education, do not mean, as some mothers may imagine, that the tiny monthling is to be taught to read, or even that it is to be exposed to cabalistical arrangements of color and form and sound which shall mysteriously force the young intelligence to flower.
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
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A subject in itself is cabalistic meditation (pathwork, or the way of return), in which we attempt to climb up the tree (ladder of lights) to attain union with divinity.
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It will probably take up a few white boards and photoshopped photos, fake documents, enlarged fine prints of this and that document with some cabalistic code, conspiring doctors that would have to include the AMA and the American Cancer Society, etc. to shed light on that vast conspiracy!
Think Progress » Beck guest host Doc Thompson: Tanning salon tax makes health care reform a ‘racist law.’
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Reuchlin claimed that Cabalistic manipulation of the Hebrew letters of the ineffable name of God, IHVH, produced a five-letter name, IHSVH, or Jesus, which was the true name of God and conferred on its user powers that were divine in origin, far above the power of nature.
Loss of Faith
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'catenary,' a line very simple in shape, but endowed with an algebraic symbol that has to resort to a kind of cabalistic number at variance with any sort of numeration, so much so that the unit refuses to express it, however much we subdivide the unit.
The Life of the Spider
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Fortune tellers are known for using basic principles and techniques such as math, numerology and Cabalistic symbolism.