cabalized

Verb

cabalize (third-person singular simple present cabalizes, present participle cabalizing, simple past and past participle cabalized)

1. (intransitive) 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 .1864, John Wilson, Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies, page 344
2. (ambitransitive, broadly) To decode or demystify.
   • This way of Cabalizing gave the Name to Judas Maccabaus1693, John Edwards, A Discourse concerning the Authority, Stile and Perfection, page 51
3. (transitive) 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.1785, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 311
4. (transitive) 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.1931, Order of the Eastern Star. Grand chapter of Arkansas, Proceedings of the 1931 Annual Session, page 96
5. (intransitive, rare) 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 .1887, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, page 190
6. (transitive) To encode as a Haskell package with the ".cabal" extension, which can then be installed and interpreted using the cabal command.
   • The scaffolded site is built as a fully cabalized Haskell package.2012, Michael Snoyman, Developing Web Applications with Haskell and Yesod, page 154

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