Cabalistical

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Cabalistic. archaic

    "Not that the gift of decyphering written characters – a gift among the commonalty of that day considered little less cabalistical than the art of inditing – could, in strict justice, have been laid to the charge of either disciple of the sea […]."

Example

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"Not that the gift of decyphering written characters – a gift among the commonalty of that day considered little less cabalistical than the art of inditing – could, in strict justice, have been laid to the charge of either disciple of the sea […]."

Etymology

From cabalistic + -al.

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