cabbalist
(ˈkæbəlɪst)
Also cabalist.
[ad. med.L. cabbalista: see -ist. Cf. also F. cabaliste.]
1. One who professes acquaintance with and faith in the Jewish Cabbala.
| c 1533 G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1058 Of the whiche knowlege the cabalystes doth make fyftie gates. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. (1650) 212 The doctrine of the Cabalists, who in each of the four banners inscribe a letter of the Tetragrammaton. 1794 Sullivan View Nat. II. 236 The Masorites and Cabbalists. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 468 The cabalists and Talmudists are responsible for him [Adam]. |
2. One skilled in mystic arts or learning.
| a 1592 Greene Dram. Wks. (1831) I. 182 The cabalists that write of magic spells. 1704 Swift T. Tub v. (1709) 76 As eminent a Cabalist as his Disciples would represent him. 1847 Emerson Poems, Initial Love, Cupid is a casuist, A mystic, and a cabalist. 1850 Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. I. 157 Plato felt the temptation to be a cabbalist. |
3. See cabalist.