Also cabalism. [f. CABBALA + -ISM: or ad. med.L. cabbalism-us.]
1. The system or manner of the Jewish Cablala.
1641. Wilkins, Mercury, viii. (1707), 33. Which kind of Cabalism is six Times repeated in the History of the Creation.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., VI. 200. Sailing between Cabbalism and Platonism.
1854. Kingsley, Alexandria, IV. 156. The cabbalism of the old Rabbis.
2. Mystic or occult doctrine; mystery.
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon (1630), 8. Sore he doubts of Bacons Cabalisme.
1641. Vind. Smectymnuus, xiii. 141. What Cabalisme have we here?
1660–3. J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 287. Pretty allegories, parables, cabbalisms.
1847. Emerson, Repres. Men, Wks. (Bohn), I. 284. They are the exceptions which we want, where all grows alike. A foreign greatness is the antidote for cabalism. Ibid. (1856), Eng. Traits, xiii. Wks. 1874, II. 99. I do not know that there is more Cabalism in the Anglican, than in other Churches.
