cabbalism
(ˈkæbəlɪz(ə)m)
Also cabalism.
[f. cabbala + -ism: or ad. med.L. cabbalism-us.]
1. The system or manner of the Jewish Cabbala.
| 1614 Wilkins Mercury viii. (1707) 33 Which kind of Cabalism is six Times repeated in the History of the Creation. 1652 J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. 200 Sailing between Cabbalism and Platonism. 1854 Kingsley Alexandria iv. 156 The cabbalism of the old Rabbis. |
2. Mystic or occult doctrine; mystery.
| 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon (1630) 8 Sore he doubts of Bacons Cabalisme. 1641 Vind. Smectymnuus xiii. 141 What Cabalisme have we here? 1660–3 J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 287 Pretty allegories, parables, cabbalisms. |
3. ? (Cf. cabal, cabalist.)
| 1847 Emerson Repres. Men Wks. (Bohn) I. 284 They are the exceptions which we want, where all grows alike. A foreign greatness is the antidote for cabalism. 1856 ― Eng. Traits xiii. Wks. 1874 II. 99, I do not know that there is more Cabalism in the Anglican, than in other Churches. |