cabalize

To study and interpret the Kabbalah.

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

We let ourselves be influenced by Diotallevi, who was always cabalizing. He cabalized, so we put the Jews in the Plan. If he had been a scholar of Chinese culture, would we have put the Chinese in the Plan?

To decode or demystify.

This way of Cabalizing gave the Name to Judas Maccabaus

They are not to be cabalized away by any extemporaneous ingenuity, and while they all the more imperiously demand the inauguration of new and superior influences for the formation of character, they put the subject more in the light of a duty we owe to posterity than of a present satisfaction of our own passional demands.

To make mysterious; to entangle or obscure with the trappings of religion, mysticism, or superstition.

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.

This household knowledge—which every woman knew—would be added to and passed on; in many cases cabalized and transmitted in the shape of charms and mysteries from mother to daughter.

To encode using wordplay such as acrostics or ciphers.

Since then anything we see cabalized, or a word that was formed from the initials of other words, so we have ours.

The immediate and marked success of these two cabalized volumes of James' clearly suggests unnatural skill and power were at work.

To use cabalistic language or perform cabalistic magic.

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 .

Having nothing to do, I took out my besmeared cards, sat under the stove and began to cabalize.

To engage in politics as part of a cabal.

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."

Thus, again, in politics we see the centrifugal principle cabalizing with the most calculating desperation between the shades or factions of the same political party , who vie with each other for the spoils.

To control or manipulate via a cabal or secret political organization.

Neopatrimonialism describes a political system in which political power is personalized and in some cases cabalized; public offices and resources are prebendalized;

The reason is that political and economic power is primarily personalized and cabalized .