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cabala
Part of speech: NounA secret science or knowledge which the Jewish rabbins alleged they possessed, and by which they professed to be able to explain all Scripture difficulties.
Usage examples "cabala":- But then, for hard words and terms, which neither he, nor you, nor I, nor anybody else could understand, he poured them out in such abundance that you'd have sworn he had been rehearsing some of the occult philosophy of Agrippa, or reading extracts from the Cabala. - "Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery", Robert Means Lawrence.
- The Jewish Cabala and the Gnostics had much in common. - "The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets", Richard B. Westbrook.
- Is it not of the same complexion as his ungenerous reserve even in the minutest secrets of chemistry, or the numbers of his Cabala? - "Zanoni", Edward Bulwer Lytton.