cabal
See also: Cabal
English
Etymology
From French cabale, from Medieval Latin cabala, which in turn is derived from Hebrew קַבָּלָה (kabalá, “Jewish mysticism”, literally “something received”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈbɑːl/, /kəˈbæl/
Noun
cabal (plural cabals)
- A usually secret exclusive organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
- The cabal is plotting to ruin the world.
- A secret plot.
- The cabal to destroy the building was foiled by federal agents.
- An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
- 1965 Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia
- Some episkoposes have a one-man cabal. Some work together. Some never do explain.
- 1965 Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia
Synonyms
Derived terms
- cabalistic
- cabbalistic
- TINC (there is no cabal)
Translations
secret organization
Verb
cabal (third-person singular simple present cabals, present participle caballing, simple past and past participle caballed)
- To engage in the activities of a cabal.
- 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (Penguin 2004, p. 11)
- We think it very unbecoming our prudence that the determination should be remitted to the authors themselves; when our adversaries, by briguing and caballing, have caused so universal a defection from us, that the greater part of our society has already deserted to them.
- 1840, George Payne Rainsford James, The king's highway, volume 1, page 68-69:
- […] I believed her to have been carried off by some persons belonging to a party of Jacobites who were known to be caballing against the government, though to what extent was not then ascertained.
- 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (Penguin 2004, p. 11)
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