cabala
Britishnoun
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Bach was into puzzles, numerology, and all kinds of musical cabala, so the nuttiest idea of all about his tuning might well be right.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2010
Too often she seems to be hectoring the reader to decipher a private cabala.
From Time Magazine Archive
These works, and the other 74 tales in the collection, have become secular cabala, subject to endless sifting and interpretation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mia Farrow adds an otherworldliness to her character by reciting her lines as if they were cabala.
From Time Magazine Archive
This prince had published and defended nine hundred propositions on theology, mathematics, physics, cabala, and other sciences.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
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