cabalize
/kəˈbɑːlaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make mysterious; to entangle or obscure with the trappings of religion, mysticism, or superstition.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "One of these last is Lonstein, an Argentine Jew who "rabbinizes" or "cabalizes" his way through the book, playing with language, obsessed by a mushroom he is cultivating at home , and given to digressions on the virtues of masturbation."
- "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."
- "But yet if one is allowed to cabalize in this manner, I can more easily fit "Rech" (7.7) to the German word "Reich.""