cabalistic

• “The word "Jafr" is supposed to mean a skin (camel's or dog's), prepared as parchment for writing; and Al-Jafr, the book here in question, is described as a cabalistic prognostication of all that will ever happen to the Moslems.”

  Arabian nights. English

• “M. de Bragadin said that it was Solomon's key, vulgarly called cabalistic science, and he asked me from whom I learnt it.”

  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

• “Grace untied her nice clean coil of rope, while Madaline besought her in every kind of cabalistic sign she could summon to her aid, to desist in her reckless intention of tieing the man to the tree.”

  The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C.

• “Log of _The Humane Hopwood_, which heretofore had been a kind of cabalistic Register, full of blots, crosses, half-moons, and zigzags, like the chalk score of an unlettered Ale-wife.”

  The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...

• “M. de Bragadin said that it was Solomon’s key, vulgarly called cabalistic science, and he asked me from whom I learnt it.”

  The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

• “catenary,' a line very simple in shape, but endowed with an algebraic symbol that has to resort to a kind of cabalistic number at variance with any sort of numeration, so much so that the unit refuses to express it, however much we subdivide the unit.”

  The Life of the Spider

• “It will probably take up a few white boards and photoshopped photos, fake documents, enlarged fine prints of this and that document with some cabalistic code, conspiring doctors that would have to include the AMA and the American Cancer Society, etc. to shed light on that vast conspiracy!”

  Think Progress » Beck guest host Doc Thompson: Tanning salon tax makes health care reform a ‘racist law.’

• “There was always a ring of people somewhere uttering strange cabalistic noises, such as - ‘ten he heads”

  Stalag 18A

• “The Online Etymology dictionary notes that the word was a magical formula circa 1696 from Late Gk. Abraxas, cabalistic or gnostic name for the supreme god, and thus a word of power.”

  blog – syllable studio

• “Note 10: By this path of inquiry, Ficino followed Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, and Pietro d'Abano, while complementing the efforts of his contemporary Guglielmo Raimondo de Moncada (Flavius Mithridates), who composed a treatise on astrological influences for Duke Federico in 1481 and later instructed Pico della Mirandola in cabalistic practices at Perugia in 1486.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

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