cabalist

¹ American  

[kab-uh-list] / ˈkæb ə lɪst /

noun

1. a spelling variant of kabbalist.

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cabalist ² American  

[kab-uh-list] / ˈkæb ə lɪst /

noun

1. a member of a cabal.

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Etymology

Origin of cabalist

1635–45; perhaps < French cabaliste. See cabal, -ist

Example Sentences

She tells Weiss that “he’s part hypnotist, part cabalist, a proponent of magnetism, and a theosophist.”

From Washington Post

Thus it seemed to the sophists, to the scholiasts, alchemists, cabalists, Talmudists, and to our own scientific science and to our artistic art.

From Project Gutenberg

You needn’t be a pipe organ cabalist or an initiate of the new-music illuminati to be moved, even shaken, by Olivier Messiaen’s music for the instrument he played most of his life.

From New York Times

For there is no mean to take in the true religion, and we must not fall into the extravagances of the gnomes and sylphs of the cabalists.

From Project Gutenberg

The only company he covets is that of the contemplative thinkers of bygone days,—the mystics, gnostics, cabalists, neo-Platonists.

From Project Gutenberg