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Webster 1913 Edition


Cabalistical

{

Cabˊa-lis′tic

(kăbˊȧ-lĭs′tĭk)
,

Cabˊa-lis′tic-al

(-tĭ-kal)
}
Adj.
Of or pertaining to the cabala; containing or conveying an occult meaning; mystic.
The Heptarchus is a
cabalistic
exposition of the first chapter of Genesis
Hallam.
.

Definition 2024


cabalistical

cabalistical

English

Adjective

cabalistical (comparative more cabalistical, superlative most cabalistical)

  1. (now rare) Cabalistic.
    • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘King Pest’:
      Not that the gift of decyphering written characters – a gift among the commonalty of that day considered little less cabalistical than the art of inditing – could, in strict justice, have been laid to the charge of either disciple of the sea […].