a. Also cabal-. [f. prec. + -IC, or direct ad. F. cabalistique, or med.L. cabbalistic-us.] Pertaining to, of the nature of, or like the Cabbala or cabbalists; having a private or mystic sense; mysterious.
1624. Middleton, Game at Chess, IV. ii. Out of that cabalistic bloody riddle.
1665. J. Spencer, Prophecies, 97. The Cabbalistick sense of Scripture.
1684. N. S., Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible, xii. 95. Sometimes he refutes them, especially the Cabbalistick, and Allegorical Doctors.
1724. A. Collins, Gr. Chr. Relig., 258. The Revelation … being written in the Cabalistick style.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., vi. 129. The form of the ceremony is to draw certain figures and cabalistic signs upon the skull, after it has been scraped and denuded of the flesh.
