cabbalize

Verb

cabbalize (third-person singular simple present cabbalizes, present participle cabbalizing, simple past and past participle cabbalized)

1. To study or be influenced by the Kabbalah.
   • The most direct derivation is from Serap, to burn, whence Seraph; since Serapis was so represented; and since it is evident that Moses cabbalized in translating names, he may have done so here ; and if this, meaning a column of measured time, evince connexion with the pyramid, the name Boore-Muth...1824, The Classical Journal - Volume 29, page 88
   • All the efforts to prove it have ended in mere appeals to cabbalizing Jews, who lived long after the New Testament was written.1846, The Christian Reformer, Or, Unitarian Magazine and Review
2. (broadly) To interpret in a mystical and esoteric manner.
   • The great value of Bloom's work is its emphasis on a psychoanalytic perspective, however gnostified, mystified, cabbalized that perspective may be.1983, Eleanor Cook, Northrop Frye, Centre and labyrinth: essays in honour of Northrop Frye, page 345
   • We are now given a neo-platonized and cabbalized Yeats, whom to understand we must first master an august company that ranges from Cornelius Agrippa to Madame Blavatsky, from the astral wanderings of Swedenborg to the secret speculations of the Rosicrucians.1988, Harold Bloom, John Hollander, Poetics of influence: new and selected criticism, page 46