Also cabalist. [ad. med.L. cabbalista: see -IST. Cf. also F. cabaliste.]

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  1.  One who professes acquaintance with and faith in the Jewish Cabbala.

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c. 1533.  Dewes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 1058. Of the whiche knowlege the cabalystes doth make fyftie gates.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep. (1650), 212. The doctrine of the Cabalists, who in each of the four banners inscribe a letter of the Tetragrammaton.

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1794.  R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., II. 236. The Masorites and Cabbalists.

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1878.  O. B. Frothingham, in N. Amer. Rev., 468. The cabalists and Talmudists are responsible for him [Adam].

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  2.  One skilled in mystic arts or learning.

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a. 1592.  Greene, Dram. Wks. (1831), I. 182. The cabalists that write of magic spells.

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1704.  Swift, T. Tub, V. (1709), 76. As eminent a Cabalist as his Disciples would represent him.

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1847.  Emerson, Poems, Initial Love. Cupid is a casuist, A mystic, and a cabalist.

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1850.  Maurice, Mor. & Met. Philos., I. 157. Plato felt the temptation to be a cabbalist.

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  3.  See CABALIST.

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