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cabalistic
adjective
Of or relating to a cabal; secretive and cliquish.
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Expect an elaborate old floor set in cabalistic patterns and lit only by candles, two stone staircases, patches of fresco, a vast hall with giant fireplace, a lovely pool – and dogs, geese, ducks and sheep: this is an active organic farm.
This taste for the construction of literary enigmas, puzzles, labyrinths, and visual designs, all presented in an esoteric, Latinate style, led to cabalistic and occult exercises.
The sect of the Ḥurūfīs developed these cabalistic interpretations of letters, but they are quite common in the whole Islamic world and form almost a substitute for mythology.
It's a diamond shape of fired-on clay that's stuffed with symbols and incantations — "Mom," a ghost snake, "Allow yourself greatness" — in the cabalistic manner of a Dr. Bronner's soap label.
It was a rugged ritual, full of cabalistic exchanges, with each player taking a decisive role.
The woman, Ozzie, was, according to young Tom, "almost invisible to anyone but our little cabalistic circle of three".
The whole scene, with its twin aromas of the shambolic and the cabalistic, has an honest political stink.
Rather, the cabalistic secrets of the anatomy lab drew him in, and he fell in love with the complex structures of the body's interior and their arcane nomenclature.
Jazz stages and metal stages are places where a certain kind of experimentation happens: brainy and cabalistic, with a hint of a smile.
There was a time, in the late '90s, around the time of its album "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven," when this band had new energy and a mysterious cabalistic power.
He will be remembered as a deeply Joyfilled being, who inspired everyone around him to live LIFE according to the Cabalistic interpretation: L- Loving unconditionally, I-Inspiring Unconditionally, F-Forgiving unconditionally, E-Excited unconditionally.
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