What does "cabalize" mean?

To study and interpret the Kabbalah.

How do you pronounce "cabalize"?

Pronounced //kəˈbɑːlaɪz//.

//kəˈbɑːlaɪz// verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Verb

1
To study and interpret the Kabbalah. intransitive
"All the efforts to prove it have ended in mere appeals to cabalizing Jews, who lived long after the New Testament was written ."
2
To engage in politics as part of a cabal. intransitive
"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.""
3
To decode or demystify. ambitransitive, broadly
"This way of Cabalizing gave the Name to Judas Maccabaus"
4
To control or manipulate via a cabal or secret political organization. transitive
"Neopatrimonialism describes a political system in which political power is personalized and in some cases cabalized; public offices and resources are prebendalized;"
5
To make mysterious; to entangle or obscure with the trappings of religion, mysticism, or superstition. transitive
"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."

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6
To encode using wordplay such as acrostics or ciphers. transitive
"Since then anything we see cabalized, or a word that was formed from the initials of other words, so we have ours."
7
To use cabalistic language or perform cabalistic magic. intransitive, rare
"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 ."
8
To encode as a Haskell package with the ".cabal" extension, which can then be installed and interpreted using the cabal command. transitive
"The scaffolded site is built as a fully cabalized Haskell package."

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

Etymology 1

From cabala + -ize. Compare French cabaliser.

Etymology 2

From cabal + -ize.

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